TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
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TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
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Re: TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
#2Why are pretty markdown editors such a thing on Mac specifically? Is that the favored platform for bloggers, or something?
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#3I find the "100% Compatible with CommonMark" a bit confusing, without looking I'd assume CommonMark was another product from the same people, and they'd done a re-branding, and wanted to make the association.
That said, whilst writing this comment it occurs to me that CommonMark might also be an effort I've never heard of to standardise out some of John Gruber’s original undefined spec behaviours, but as a developer Github flavoured markdown is the de-facto standard as it has many well written and well-tested implementations.
Re: TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
#4That looks like a pretty close copy—or rip off, rather—of Ulysses (http://ulyssesapp.com/)...
Re: TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
#5How does it save the files? Looks like they are kept in a database in ~/Library/Application Support.
This would be awesome for keeping notes in plain text that will stand the test of time.
Re: TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
#6Why are pretty markdown editors such a thing on Mac specifically? Is that the favored platform for bloggers, or something?
For one Gruber is arguably the most influential Mac blogger and the creator of Markdown. He and other bloggers like him have promoted and endorsed it. As for the pretty cocoa editors, I'd say the Mac App Store has had a lot to do with it, by allowing developers to get paid for wrapping what used to be a command line workflow into a nice yummy gui. There an entire category of markup powered editors sitting on a spectrum from minimalist "distraction free zen writing environments" (Byword et al) to more featureful writing suites (Ulysses).
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#7That looks like a pretty close copy—or rip off, rather—of Ulysses ( http://ulyssesapp.com/ )...
Yeah the color palette is definitely too close.
Re: TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
#8I find the "100% Compatible with CommonMark" a bit confusing, without looking I'd assume CommonMark was another product from the same people, and they'd done a re-branding, and wanted to make the association. That said, whilst writing this comment it occurs to me that CommonMark might also be an effort I've never heard of to standardise out some of John Gruber’s original undefined spec behaviours, but as a developer…
You're right that it was an effort to pin down the markdown spec by not-Gruber people. And Github actually was involved, along with some other big names like Reddit, Stackexchange, and Meteor.
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#9That looks like a pretty close copy—or rip off, rather—of Ulysses ( http://ulyssesapp.com/ )...
Ulysses' problem is that, despite saving as Markdown, there's no "real" Markdown editing mode. Certain things, like images, can only be entered through the GUI, and its clumsy parsing means that certain formatting gets permanently mangled in a way that messes up copy-paste, since what you see when editing isn't actually Markdown. Among other issues, for example, it adds escape characters, of all things, to anything with a [.
Re: TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
#10How does it save the files? Looks like they are kept in a database in ~/Library/Application Support. This would be awesome for keeping notes in plain text that will stand the test of time.
As someone mentioned in this thread, Ulysses 3 can do this. You can "mount" local directories and it will save and show those files in "plaintext". Use Dropbox, Syncthing, BTSync whatever to sync between devices.