FoldingText for Atom text editor

Posted by Gorski
Jun 30, 2015 at 01:15 AM

Well, here’s how Jesse explains himself.

http://jessegrosjean.gitbooks.io/foldingtext-for-atom-user-s-guide/content/getting_started.html

> Why FoldingText for Atom

> In 2007 I created TaskPaper in response to what I thought were overly complex “todo” apps at the time. TaskPaper is a plain text format together with a syntax highlighting editor. It presents your todo’s in a text outline without any “user interface” in the way.

> I then began a long journey of trying to extend TaskPaper’s plain text outline interface to do more. I added more outliner features. I added outline filtering. I addopted Markdown syntax. The end result is FoldingText for Mac.

> At some point TaskPaper’s original design became a liability. It started as a simplifying factor that put the user in control. But each new feature needed a new syntax rule. Eventaully all those rules created more complexity then they solved.

> A New Start

> FoldingText for Atom is a restart.

> I’ve zoomed back to 2007 and taken the simple text outline that I liked so much about TaskPaper. But I ditched the plain text editor interface. And restarted with a more traditional outliner editor interface.

> For the last year I’ve been zooming forward again. Redoing the features that I added to TaskPaper over the years. But this time without the need that they work in a syntax highlighting plain text editor.

> It’s been a wonderfuly simplifiying process. There’s still lots to do, but I think the foundation is ready.