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Versatil Markdown
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 24, 2018 at 05:43 PM
In my seemingly endless quest to find a replacement note-taking app to replace Ulysses, I thought I had tried them all. But I just stumbled on an app called Versatil Markdown, which seems to dovetail nicely with my sensibilities:
Among the things I like about VM:
* Displays both internal and external folders and files in the navigator, so I can keep a Dropbox folder in which I can create text files on my Windows PC at work.
* By default, files are displayed in rendered mode. Shifting to edit mode is easy. Among the methods, hover the cursor over the paragraph you want to begin editing and click while holding down command and be put into edit mode right in that paragraph.
* The dedicated spark file. If you want to add something to it while you’re working in another file, just use control-s to save the current document and be shifted into the spark file with the date and time already inserted.
* Rendered documents look great.
* Markdown is pretty standard, although there are some extensions for executing special formatting, such as rendering columns in your document.
* Select a folder and the documents contained within are rendered as preview cards.
There is no iOS app, but that isn’t a problem. I can use any number of markdown enabled iOS editors to create and read notes saved to a common Dropbox folder. It does not do folding.
The price is reasonable ($15 U.S.) and there is no subscription.
I haven’t used it enough to swear that it has no major issues. So far, so good.
Anyway, I hadn’t found Versatil Markdown mention on this forum before, so I’m mentioning it now.
Steve Z.