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Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by mceachen »

brazzy wrote: post #40
swebs wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't remember that at all. Are you sure you're not thinking of emacs?

Nope, definitely vi. I have a vintage book about Unix written ca. 1980, and the author's concern was that "vi's code segment will fill up most of the main memory of a large PDP-11, leaving you little space for the text you're editing". They considered their university's heavily modified fork of ed (the standard text editor, remember?) to be a better choice.

FWIW, by 1988 the shared servers on UC campuses were sufficiently provisioned to happily run vi, compiler toolchains, and MUDs for several hundred concurrent users.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by throwGuardian »

dmytton wrote: post #49

Due to the bugs in Apple Notes on macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, I just spent some time evaluating as many note taking apps for Mac as possible. I ended up picking https://ia.net/writer Typora was interesting but it was very buggy, and doesn't handle tags which are important for notes. My main criteria were an open file format, ideally editing plain text files on disk using Markdown as the formatting. This ruled out apps li…

After reading your review, lack of tags and "Electron" were you biggest complaints against Typora. Typora is not a notes manger, and reviewing it for what it's not trying to be, is unfair. As for electron, despite the perception of being a hog, Typora's resource usage is about 150MB in RAM and 0.5% CPU when idle. I think your modern MacBook pro can trivially handle that.

In my opinion, Typora's advantages are:

1. WYSIWYG markdown. I don't believe iAWriter is WYSIWYG. While that's ok for developers, Typora is more widely usable.

2. Extensions: from Mermaid, LateX, sequence diagrams to code highlighting, to export to ePub (via Pandoc), Typora is a lot more versatile

3. Saves files as text (.md) and assets, easily searchable via OS. Highly portable

4. Cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux)

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by mikewhy »

throwGuardian wrote: post #62
dmytton wrote: post #49

Due to the bugs in Apple Notes on macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, I just spent some time evaluating as many note taking apps for Mac as possible. I ended up picking https://ia.net/writer Typora was interesting but it was very buggy, and doesn't handle tags which are important for notes. My main criteria were an open file format, ideally editing plain text files on disk using Markdown as the formatting. This ruled out apps li…

After reading your review, lack of tags and "Electron" were you biggest complaints against Typora. Typora is not a notes manger, and reviewing it for what it's not trying to be, is unfair. As for electron, despite the perception of being a hog, Typora's resource usage is about 150MB in RAM and 0.5% CPU when idle. I think your modern MacBook pro can trivially handle that. In my opinion, Typora's advantages are: 1. WYS…

> Typora is not a notes manger, and reviewing it for what it's not trying to be, is unfair.

From the site:

"Typora provides both file tree panel and articles (file list) panel, allows you to manage your files easily."

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by throwGuardian »

mikewhy wrote: post #63
throwGuardian wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After reading your review, lack of tags and "Electron" were you biggest complaints against Typora. Typora is not a notes manger, and reviewing it for what it's not trying to be, is unfair. As for electron, despite the perception of being a hog, Typora's resource usage is about 150MB in RAM and 0.5% CPU when idle. I think your modern MacBook pro can trivially handle that. In my opinion, Typora's advantages are: 1. WYS…

> Typora is not a notes manger, and reviewing it for what it's not trying to be, is unfair. From the site: "Typora provides both file tree panel and articles (file list) panel, allows you to manage your files easily."

Yes - a feature of the editor is that it shows a file list panel for the directory the .md file is in. I'm not seeing that as "We're a notes app"

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by Scarbutt »

dmytton wrote: post #49

Due to the bugs in Apple Notes on macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, I just spent some time evaluating as many note taking apps for Mac as possible. I ended up picking https://ia.net/writer Typora was interesting but it was very buggy, and doesn't handle tags which are important for notes. My main criteria were an open file format, ideally editing plain text files on disk using Markdown as the formatting. This ruled out apps li…

Since you evaluated proprietary versions, have you check out notion.io? For note taking, I have found it great.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by ScottFree »

nickjj wrote: post #48
ScottFree wrote: post #45

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You don't seem to be getting the point. Vim is for code. Typora is for documents. They are different tools tailored specifically for different jobs. You wouldn't use microsoft word to write code, would you? If you like vim and want to use it for markdown, that's great. I personally like a more specialized tool. Then again, I'm also a writer and spend more time in that mode than most programmers. If you spend all your…

I spend about 50% of my time programming and 50% writing. I often deal with 300,000+ word markdown files because part of what I do for a living is write technical courses. I've written about a million words of markdown over the last ~5 years.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ different strokes for different folks, man. Most of what I write is fiction. Some of that fiction also serves as functional requirement documents. :D

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by jawarner »

BenGosub wrote: post #28

I have used Boostnote and Remarkable, on Ubuntu. After using Boostnote for a while, it started to bug me because it's slow load time (it's an Electron app), so I searched for something native and found Remarkable, which is simple and really fast. It just lacks some of the organization features that Boostnote offers.

I liked Remarkable initially. But its development has stopped with bugs outstanding. One is that typing with live-preview enabled jumps the viewport to the top. Typora seems nicer.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by austhrow743 »

dmytton wrote: post #49

Due to the bugs in Apple Notes on macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, I just spent some time evaluating as many note taking apps for Mac as possible. I ended up picking https://ia.net/writer Typora was interesting but it was very buggy, and doesn't handle tags which are important for notes. My main criteria were an open file format, ideally editing plain text files on disk using Markdown as the formatting. This ruled out apps li…

FYI OneNote is free and in Bear you can export all notes at once to markdown which if coming from Notes you may not have thought to try. Can have a folder with all of your notes stored in markdown within a couple seconds.
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