BoostNote > Multi-Platfrom, Multi-Pane Text/Code editor (Free Open Source)

Posted by washere
Mar 4, 2018 at 09:37 PM

jaslar wrote:
What makes this better than Atom or Sublime (ok, it’s free?).

Nice compliment for it to be equivalent to atom & sublime, but it isn’t. Much lighter, less features and not having thousands of plugins. Different genre. A bit like a markdown IDE where you can see code next to the live output preview.

Also has dropbox features so can work on a document from anywhere. Mainly desktop, android ver is basic & keeps crashing like Win version used to, I gave feedback followed by others & he fixed it. Syncing via dropbox in a very good editor environment, unlike other editors with basic features that blind you too, has a lot of potential for non-programmers too.

It’s also a code snippet syntax app, can input & highlight code from a hundred different languages with relevant highlighting in same note, mainly for coders.

It’s different to Typora which I recommended here a while back and also a top markdown editor. Different genre again. This is mainly a note-taking app for coders. Hence some here will see the potential for other areas too as it has a combo of features:

If a note-taking maniac type of person does markdown (many will in future) + in same notes across devices from free cloud (dropbox, not some guy charging you subscription monthly for his transient app & reading your data) + wanting to see live preview markdown output + all in a classy editor that has all the basic features (unlike many hyped baby apps on github I could mention) + many themes + free + open source so branches or input by others are possible, then this is it.