SpringNotes

Posted by satis
Mar 21, 2021 at 03:00 PM

FYI a year ago Markdown creator John Gruber asked on Twitter for recommendations for a Mac/iOS outliner with folding and a simple UI. He’s a years- (decade-?) long user of OmniOutliner but complained using the analogy that it’s like a word processor and he wants a simpler, snappier text editor.

He also has a conservative view of how Markdown should be implemented. (For example he hates apps like Ulysses which hide URLs inside linked text.)

I mentioned Springnotes to him last month, and after looking into it replied that it was interesting but he hates the app’s Markdown implementation, saying that people using Markdown like this should really just be using WYSIWYG-styled text. He’s entitled to his proprietary interest but that complaint doesn’t bother me; besides, the portability of Markdown means styling would survive better should one migrate to another app.