WriteMapper 3

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 6, 2021 at 09:19 AM

Agreed. The other shortcomings I pointed out to the developer were as follows:

Yep, okay, there’s markdown. But…
- there’s no smart punctuation – in a writing app!
- there’s no support for (internal) headers (again, somewhat surprising in a writing app)
- there’s no support for highlighting
- there’s no support for fonts (choosing your own)
- there’s no support for selecting and exporting multiple nodes (although you can export grouped nodes by tagged colours)
- you can’t link nodes (using e.g. wikilinks – or any other kind of link)

The new positives are:

- nice search function (vastly improved)
- nice Live Preview function
- nice export function (with a very wide selection of options)
- an interesting roadmap

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
I like WriteMapper overall. Aside from brainstorming a document from
>scratch, it seems to work well for importing a document and
>enriching/reorganising it. The minimal writing environment is nice, I
>like the dark mode, and the live preview is very good for overview.
> >Putting the live preview and the mind map side by side shows a weakness
>of the interface—actually of the interface of most many mapping
>applications: mind maps take much more screen real estate than their
>equivalent outlines.
> >I imported a fairly complex document. In the live preview the whole
>outline fits in the (4K) screen height and is crystal clear with a well
>sized font. The mind map has to be zoomed out considerably to fit in the
>same height and is then barely readable. This can surely be improved
>with more customisation options for the mind map.