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Craft 2.0 - For Everyone!
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Posted by Donovan
Feb 9, 2022 at 04:29 PM
The last discussion here about Craft was in June of 2021. It’s hard to know where to begin with so many new and exciting things happening since then.
- Craft Web App is now at near parity with the Mac app. Full parity this quarter.
- Craft 2.0 was released - a Christmas present indeed.
- Apple named Craft the Mac App of the Year 2021.
- Craft rolled out version 2.02 - tons of updates.
- MacStories runner-up App and Design of the year.
- MacStories readers voted Craft ‘Readers Choice for 2021’
- iOS App Store ratings for Craft is a staggering 4.9 out of 2,100+ ratings
All since June!
Wayyy too many things to list here if you haven’t seen Craft since June of last year.
Here’s a good rundown:
Craft in 2022
https://www.craft.do/whats-new
Craft 2.0
https://www.craft.do/whats-new/b/623ABE95-9BB9-4005-9829-7330752CCC16/v2.0_-_Craft_update
Craft 2.2
https://www.craft.do/whats-new/b/B00618FB-2FFF-455B-8AF5-B9B41B91512F/v2.0.2_-_Craft_update_-_All_the_smal
This app has truly come the closest to ending my never ending CRIMP search!
Thoughts on Craft for 2022?
- MD
Posted by Maurice Parker
Feb 9, 2022 at 07:00 PM
Craft is an incredibly well written application. I can only assume that the Craft team is super talented.
When Craft came out I was in the middle of developing version 1.0 of outliner, Zavala. I almost stropped working on it because I was so intimidated by Craft. I had some friends tell me that they still wanted a dedicated outliner, so I kept going.
I still can’t believe that MacStories picked Obsidian over Craft. I realize those guys are really into Obsidian, but the out-of-the-box experience between the two is incomparable. Craft wins hands down.
I’m excited to check out Craft extensions. That should put it feature wise, on par with the more extensible web-based knowledge databases.
Posted by Donovan
Feb 9, 2022 at 09:01 PM
Maurice Parker wrote:
> I almost stropped working on it because I was so
>intimidated by Craft.
Well, I’m sure glad you continued!
Putting things in perspective, Craft is fine-tuned by a large staff with $8 Million in funding last year. As beautiful as it is, and yes it’s also extremely well executed, it really *should be* if you think about it. That’s some serious cash behind a product. It’s also a lot of daily expectations to live up to. There is definitely room for Zavala, Maurice. I think it’s one of those iOS apps that, “just works.” I really mean that, too - SO glad you continued.
Posted by satis
Feb 9, 2022 at 10:52 PM
Donovan wrote:
> Craft is fine-tuned by a large staff with
>$8 Million in funding last year. As beautiful as it is, and yes
>it’s also extremely well executed, it really *should be* if you
>think about it. That’s some serious cash behind a product.
Yes, they got $8m in Series A funding (plus an unknown seed amount from InReach Ventures), but techdom is filled with products funded by many times that amount which then failed. Not saying that’s in any way happening to Craft, just that it’s a poor metric to use because there’s a fine line between ‘serious cash’ and ‘dumb money’.
As an aside, that funding is a drop in the bucket for a company like that and its burn rate, and not too ‘serious’ when compared to other apps. For example Notion has received nearly $400m in multiple seed rounds (with a multibillion dollar valuation), ClickUp has raised more than $400m, Roam Research has drawn over $9m, and RemNote raised $3m in September. With the pandemic VCs have thrown money at all sorts of notetaking products as workers have had to be productive and share from home.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 10, 2022 at 05:14 PM
What’s impressive about Craft is the steady pace of development – it’s a rapidly evolving product.
That’s always the most encouraging sign that (a) the underlying platform is well-programmed and solid, and (b) the team get on well together!