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Re: Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

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Post by tehwalrus » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

omaranto wrote: post #19

tehwalrus wrote: post #4

I would love this if it had markdown hinting support (impossible to escape in a hacker news comment...)

Is 'markdown hinting' just 'markdown' or is it something new markdown related that I might enjoy?

I mean, since this is single window (so no side-by-side source and compiled) that when you surround with asterisks, the asterisks are still visible, but the whole word is italicised. it is often performed by markdown syntax highlighters - if you're on OS X, try textmate 2 with the extension ".md" to see what I mean (it makes a wonderful job of semi-previewing my octopress blog entries.)

Re: Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

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Post by ghostnappa » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

727374 wrote: post #20

To save on Dropbox you have to give it access to your entire dropbox? Maybe that's a dropbox limitation, but no thanks.

yeah, that is a dropbox limitation. O'reilly and other sites offer dropbox integration, but they are actually given permission to the entirety of dropbox although they just create a root folder and deposit files normally.

Re: Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

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Post by 727374 » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

ghostnappa wrote: post #22

727374 wrote: post #20

To save on Dropbox you have to give it access to your entire dropbox? Maybe that's a dropbox limitation, but no thanks.

yeah, that is a dropbox limitation. O'reilly and other sites offer dropbox integration, but they are actually given permission to the entirety of dropbox although they just create a root folder and deposit files normally.

Thanks for clarifying... I hope dropbox improves this.

Re: Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

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Post by jpdevereaux » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 6:21 PM UTC

ghostnappa wrote: post #22

727374 wrote: post #20

To save on Dropbox you have to give it access to your entire dropbox? Maybe that's a dropbox limitation, but no thanks.

yeah, that is a dropbox limitation. O'reilly and other sites offer dropbox integration, but they are actually given permission to the entirety of dropbox although they just create a root folder and deposit files normally.

Ehh when integrating with the Dropbox API you're given a choice of "full Dropbox" or "app folder", the latter option creates a folder in your Dropbox which is all your app can access. For an app like this "full Dropbox" is probably more useful (so that you can edit existing files), but in O'Reilly's case it seems they should have chosen "app folder".

Re: Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

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Post by omervk » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 9:27 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #8

This is awesome. I've been looking for a web-based simple text editor (an iA Writer for the web) and this is the best one I've seen yet. Will definitely be using it.

The fact that iA have decided not to release a version of iA Writer for the web says something about this product.

Re: Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web

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Post by christiangenco » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

tonetheman wrote: post #3

Probably not spelled right... but funny. We don't store your file contents in our server, but save on your local for cash. Need to change cash to cache maybe?... or maybe not. Nice biz model. :)

Came here to say this. There'd be a lot more developers on the Dropbox API if you could exchange saving file contents on someone's Dropbox account for money...