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Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by hitekker »

YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo wrote: post #72
arendtio wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. Sounds to me like Obsidian is a Markdown editor too ;-) Granted it has a somewhat specific purpose but I don't find it too strange to compare them.

> Typora - A minimal Markdown editor and reader. > Obsidian - Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. Just because two applications have somewhat the same features - the purpose of the application as stated by the developers is different and with that there are different kind of optimization and shortcomings . ;-)

Obsidian is working on replicating Typora: https://trello.com/c/pXHHXIzj/18-wysiwyg-editor-like-typora and https://twitter.com/obsdmd/status/1458523572448727051

Having tried both tools, I'd say that the "venn diagram" between Typora and Obsidian is one small circle almost completely overlapped by a huge one.

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by upbeat_general »

josephcsible wrote: post #16

For all the people saying you'd be happy to pay for this given its value to you: you're missing the point. The DRM is the problem, and paid software is perfectly capable of existing without DRM.

I think the point of DRM (assuming by that you mean license activation) is clear. It prevents people from trivially sharing the single paid program and having others use it without paying. How can that be prevented without some type of DRM?

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by paulbjensen »

paulbjensen wrote: post #46
finiteseries wrote: post #3

5 years later, started to think it would never bother! $15 is a no brainer given how much I personally use it. Have recently found myself dipping into/staying in vscode more and more for version controlled markdown though.

100% Agree. Only issue is that I'm trying to buy a licence but the payment options seem to be US-only (ZIP code validation). I'm trying to buy from the UK.

Update - the FastSpring payment form detected my UK location and offered a way to pay from the UK. Purchased a license.

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 »

JulianMorrison wrote: post #28
rdpintqogeogsaa wrote: post #11

They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0]. Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all. [0] https://support.typora.io/activation/

And as a user, what's your plan to keep being able to access your notes? I feel that if you don't control your data, then you don't have your data. A license that might evaporate means your data exists at somebody else's whim. I'd move it out of that system fast.

It’s… markdown. It’s portable. It’s as portable as you can get.

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by inside_out_life »

CubityFirst wrote: post #6
paradaux wrote: post #4

I have used Typora, it's alright — but it's definitely no Obsidian[^1] Typora is very limited in terms of plugins / customisability — although it's standard feature set might be enough Obsidian is my new Emacs, it rules my life through some plugins I've written for myself, it can be a simple focus driven markdown editor like Typora if I need it to be, or a full knowledge suite like Notion and the likes of that all wh…

Typora is a WYSIWYG editor, while Obsidian isn't (atleast not without plugins). I do find myself editing my obsidian files inside of Typora on a semi-regular basis.

This is no longer true, recent versions of Obsidian started adding WYSIWYG features.

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by pisipisipisi »

Who is behind the app? Company? Person? Impossible to find anything than a "hi@" e-mail. The Github repository has no people-members, commiters have no real location...

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by josephcsible »

upbeat_general wrote: post #92
josephcsible wrote: post #16

For all the people saying you'd be happy to pay for this given its value to you: you're missing the point. The DRM is the problem, and paid software is perfectly capable of existing without DRM.

I think the point of DRM (assuming by that you mean license activation) is clear. It prevents people from trivially sharing the single paid program and having others use it without paying. How can that be prevented without some type of DRM?

Like I said in another comment, there's plenty of paid DRM-free software in the world, like the entirety of GOG's catalog. If that's not a big enough problem to put GOG out of business, then why would it be a big problem for this?

Re: Typora 1.0

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Post by smusamashah »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #89

Since the time I discovered Typora, I only use LibreOffice Writer or MS Word when I really need typesetting. Whenever I just need to write/save a text (and don't really need to specify fonts etc) I use Typora. Besides all the other features it is particularly pleasing aesthetically and this way makes writing satisfying. I wish there were an Obsidian theme to mimic Typora look and feel.

Making Typora theme should be easily doable. I made windows 98/2000 theme for it. It's not perfect, but good enough. Typora already looks lighter than Obsidian i think mainly because it lacks modern fancy animations and zoomed in interfaces which are signatures of all modern interfaces (android 12, windows 11 etc).
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