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Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by kunai »

brazzy wrote: post #9
kunai wrote: post #7

Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality. Nice UI though.

There was also a time when vi was considered a memory hog with crazy feature creep.

AbiWord, a word processor with far more rich text features, .doc export, support for multimedia images and charts, etc. uses 4MB of memory on a blank page.

There is no legitimate reason for Typora to use literally 18 times the RAM as a fully fledged office application.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by peternicky »

austhrow743 wrote: post #70
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.

onenote is a whole different ballgame than the editors in this thread. Onenote does not support markdown and is essentially a stripped down "word" variation.
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