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Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by Grumbledour »

I really struggle with the UI on this one. Some notes:

- No title bar makes using the window harder than it needs to be.

- Huge symbols I have to hover over to see what they do + a hamburger menu. A traditional menu would be easier to use for me at least.

- Speaking of hover, whats with the weird, animated back-button for folders that when it appears overlaps other elements?

- Font sizes. Really, they seem to big even for me as a visually impaired person

- General non-nativeness. That Options dialog as a website modal is just weird and jumps around when switching categories.

I don't mean to be to negative here, maybe I am just getting old, but this really seems not to be my cup of tea, though apart from the UI, I really like the idea and the use of pandoc/latex, YAML Frontmatter, saving as just files etc.

If this had a more traditional UI and would use less ressources it would come pretty close to a note taking app I often thought about but was to lazy to try my hand at myself.

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Post by vhanda »

ResidentSleeper wrote: post #227
ResidentSleeper wrote: post #25

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I've recently started using GitJournal [1] to access my notes on Android, but I haven't used it enough to be able to say whether it's worthwhile. One annoying drawback is that it requires a monthly subscription to get access to all of the (convenience) features. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.gitjournal....

@vhanda (unable to reply directly for some reason) First of all, congratulations on shipping a decent, polished Android app! These increasingly seem to be a rarity these days. Regarding the subscription model, the monthly price quickly adds up, especially for users outside the US. For example, one of the most common apps in my country offers a pro subscription for a yearly price of $3, compared to a minimum of $24 ($…

Hey Resident Sleeper

Thanks a lot for the feedback. Could you let me know what Country you are in? I've changed the pricing of the Indian market as I understand it better, I'll be happy to dramatically reduce the pricing for other countries where the US/EU pricing does not work.

Re: Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

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Post by tweetle_beetle »

miles wrote: post #145
tweetle_beetle wrote: post #46

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Seeing as your list is pretty comprehensive, it might be worth having a look at Writemonkey. It's been in development since 2006 - so long before the markdown editor trend in recent years, and probably even pre-dating the distraction-free trend about a decade ago. The most recent incarnation (v3) fits your two criteria well and its plugin system is very versatile. Sadly cross platform supports only came with version…

> Sadly cross platform supports only came with version 3 and that means saying goodbye to the small Windows native downloads, but it's not an Electron monstrosity. Yes, it's NW.js instead of Electron, but that's still an almost 100MB framework (and the >50MB sounds directory doesn't help much either). It's also closed source, though the documentation is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/writemonkey/wm3/wiki/Docume…

I wish it was native too, but I just meant it's not as bad as it could be on that front - 200ish MB RAM compared to some of the famous Electron examples.

The sounds are from the zen/focus software trend days, when you have minimal distractions from the interface and background noise loops built in.

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Post by collinmanderson »

haram_masala wrote: post #132
jeffbee wrote: post #112

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I ran a private system for a while that proxied all my browser traffic and indexed it into Lucene/Solr. This was cute at the time but with the rise of javascript apps it became increasingly useless. There wasn't anything worth indexing in the responses. These days something like Zotero Connector is probably what you want.

That’s a really cool approach though! Maybe an updated version would be to have a headless browser shadowing your browsing and indexing the rendered HTML - there would still be some gaps though.

Maybe a browser plugin?
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