Over the past few months, I’ve (1) heard lots of great reviews of new note-taking apps and (2) I have personally been using VS Code a lot more for writing code. Not bad, but I'm happy with Grav because I can publish directly to GitHub and it auto-syncs.A highly customizable alternative to Bear, Roam, nvalt, Notational Velocity, Google Docs, FSNotes etcįor many years, I have been using Google Docs was the primary repository for all of my notes, drafts, and journals. It can also publish to websites and blogs.
There's a secondary way to look at a folder that's good, but it's no better than Typora opening a directory. Unfortunately it has a "library" that is all self-titling through a database, and as such allows for some organisation but sacrifices files being in your normal structure.
FSNOTES VS BEAR FULL
It offers iOS with full sync and it keeps files in an. MWeb is a very interesting application in that it tries to do a lot of things well, and gets some of them right. Very clean, but lacks features in a way they call "minimalistic". It's a json-type app, and it costs per month. Not interested in anything where I pay monthly or lose my stuff. It does a lot of note-y things, but doesn't handle code well, doesn't export well, and is a subscription service.
FSNOTES VS BEAR FREE
Evernote ¶Ī great free service, you're limited to two devices when free. If you're on one Mac all the time, it's worth a look. Really, it's nothing you can't do in markdown, but the conversions to a presentation mode are slick. Some really neat tricks in the app, as you can combine different kinds of note pieces, such as text, code, etc. It's one guy working part-time on the app, and the promised iOS app never appeared beyond a read-only. I had data loss, and that's just not acceptable. What was one of the most promising applications, I've become very sour with this app.
FSNOTES VS BEAR SOFTWARE
If you lose the software after you stop paying, that's renting, and I don't support any app that works that way. When you had a magazine subscription, you kept the actual paper when you stopped paying. You will have to renew after a year if you want any new features, but that's how it should be. Unlike other software that they call a sub, but really you rent it for the time you use it, Agenda says it's yours forever. Special note about Agenda: ¶ĭespite the fact that Agenda is not my perfect notetaking app, it's worth sharing that for a paid product, I absolutely love their model. It's not "locked in", but you do have to purchase to export markdown. Where this doesn't work for me is two areas:Īlso, see what I say about json. It integrates seemlessly, syncs well, and has a lot of great features. Agenda ¶Ī fantastic full ecosystem within the Apple world. FSNotes does do code colouring on iOS, too. Those shortcomings might even be advantages to you, so check it out. the real-time editing of Typora is better, and you can't have nested folders. However there are a few shortcomings for me personally. All of this is good, and it's even free if you can brew. md, so you can select a folder and directly edit markdown. FSNotes ¶įSNotes is the closest app to a winner for me. Thus if you write a fence for some code, and you specify the language according to GFM, you won't get colour-keyed words. The only downside short of being Typora and real-time rendering is that 1Writer does not "pigment" code. It will sync with iCloud and Dropbox, and it will preview markdown using GFM. 1Writer ¶įor iOS, it's the best application I've found for working with markdown files. It will change the way you think about markdown. Many applications do a great job of text editing and previewing, but only Typora does real-time preview. Typora for me is the best application for writing Markdown on MacOS. Applications Applications of interest for notetaking ¶ Typora ¶