Speare word processor

Posted by Dormouse
Apr 19, 2024 at 08:21 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>It seems a highly flexible writing environment. I’m giving it a try and
>will report back what I find.
> >Steve

I watched the video.
And looked at the price.
More than twice the price of Ulysses and at a similar level to Dabble and other niche products.
But afaics it doesn’t have those niche features. Export options are no better than a standard markdown editor.

I look at Lattics (a pretty complete free version with pricing at about one fifth of Speare’s) which has more features (oc it’s easy to disagree about which ones matter) and much better export. Look and feel not a million miles away. Implementation of some features is different: in the video tags seem cumbersome and there are wikilinks; in Lattics, there are #tags and @links and backlinks. I find it hard to see why I would use Speare instead of Lattics. I’ll be interested to read your observations when you report back.

What I would say is that for this type of use (writing/notes) apps like these are way beyond programs like Obsidian in usability. Though they lack the safety backup of being based on simple, accessible files in the file system.