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Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 5, 2013 at 03:09 PM

Hm - it all sounds fairly scrumptious, I must say. And very outliner-y, for those who aren’t yet convinced!

I’m using Markdown in a lot of iOS apps (Editorial, Day One, Notebooks, Trunk Notes, Daedalus etc.), so I’m not averse to markup language as such - it’s a great solution for touch typists in particular (I am fortunate enough to be one).

But it’s long documents that suffer from markup language overload, especially if you want to edit a couple of words in a paragraph right at the end of a lengthy piece of text, and on switching over to ‘edit’ view, have to track down the specific bit you want in what is, to all intents and purposes, an entirely new application. Editorial and WikidPad both avoid this horrendous conflict by showing a pseudo-WYSIWYG view of the text as well as the codes; this is quite a clever compromise (Editorial also has a full preview mode, but in a completely separate screen, which is an even better idea).

I’m hoping V6 will allow you to open multiple notes/topics in separate windows - do you know if that’s the case? We translators are always thinking in terms of multi-language versions of the same piece of text…