Gingko

Posted by kjxymzy
Jan 21, 2018 at 12:56 AM

I’m glad I bumped this thread.

Over the past week or so, Gingko has been working quite well for me. I think the major draw of Gingko has been the ability to sort/organize of cards/thoughts in a more visual and precise manner. At this time, Gingko has mostly replaced my other favorite note/writing app, Bear, as a writing tool and has relegated it mostly to a finished writing depository for works/notes I’ve written in Gingko/other apps.

Besides the praise, I have two wishes for Gingko:
- a live markdown editor* similar to Bear, which, IMO is best in class (versus the current editor that requires a user to exit editing before seeing the results)
- search with matches being highlighted and explorable within context (versus the current method of isolating cards that match the search query, and hiding those that do not, which removes context and obstructs the big picture view of a tree)

I am already greatly satisfied w/ Gingko and hope Adriano continues his brilliant work long into the future.

* by live markdown editor, I mean it shows the results of markup cleanly/beautifully w/o hiding the markup like a rich-text editor would

Jeffery Smith wrote:
I fiddled around with the free Gingko several years ago, but it didn’t
>seem to fill a need for me. With the apparent demise of Tree and the
>recently resurrected thread here, I decided to give it another look. It
>absolutely fills a need for me now, namely, scheduling tasks in several
>different projects. Reminds me slightly of Ulysses and Bear, but I like
>the workflow of Gingko better.