NotePlan 3 public beta (and subscription)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 11, 2021 at 12:33 PM

Ah, well, I have good news there: themes are on the roadmap, and there has been quite a lot of related discussion on the Discord forum – Eduard himself is very much in favour.

But – as other developers here will appreciate – the poor lamb is flying solo, and there are lots of requests and ideas flying around!

However, I believe themes is a fairly high priority, as well as further optimisation of the markdown interpreter. He’s also discussing a plugin interface with various programmers on the forum, which could make NotePlan even more flexible (so for example, capable of supporting the kind of calendar/reminder syncing you mention). The current plan is to make it script-agnostic, so scripts in various systems (AppleScript, Alfred, etc.) could be used to trigger various NotePlan behaviours. But IANAP, so I can’t speak to the details there.

It’s all quite exciting ;-)

satis wrote:
@MadaboutDana I agree that the app is becoming very compelling for text
>notes and many types of planning. It has the possibility to replace a
>lot of apps, but for it to replace a text editor like
>MWeb/BBEdit/Typora, it needs to step up its game and offer theming, and
>a user-contributable theme gallery.
> >And it could not take me away from a writing-oriented app like Ulysses,
>which offers near-unlimited font, color and size customization of the
>writing space. Noteplan’s single light or dark-mode, and no choice of
>font or user themes, makes it painful for me to use for anything longer
>than a page.
> >That’s a shame, because I’m researching alternatives to Day One before
>my subscription expires in June, and saving $35 by dropping the Day One
>subscription app would have made migrating to NotePlan’s $60/yr
>palatable.
> >As I’ve mentioned previously I’d love to be able to coalesce around one
>app, or fewer apps, but task managers offer some unique properties I’ve
>become accustomed to, like 2-way sync with my calendar (which is
>color-coded by personal, work, hobby, etc) and sophisticated recurring
>entry options, like “every first and third Thursday at 10am”.
> >I think NotePlan’s introduction of folding was pretty smart and will
>hearten those who like the feature and lamented the flameout of Folding
>Text (and the slow, sideways development of TaskPaper). I wish the
>folding symbols weren’t hidden (or at least that there was a Prefs
>option for persistence), and that a gray ellipsis tp show that something
>was folded wasn’t so subtle. I write a lot in OmniOutliner and the basic
>black disclosure triangle is a comforting and clear sign of folding that
>I don’t want hidden from me.
> >