The Archive on sale

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Posted by Prion
Mar 15, 2024 at 10:40 AM

If you have considered The Archive over at zettelkasten.de for your, well, Zettelkasten, then today is a good day as the app is heavily discounted on the occasion of its 6th birthday.

Prion

Posted by satis
Mar 16, 2024 at 12:38 AM

“Day 1: Enjoy a whopping 75% discount on Friday, March 15th UTC+1

Day 2: Save 50% on Saturday, March 16th UTC+1

Day 3: Receive a 25% discount on Sunday, March 17th UTC+1”

Normally $20, app is $4.99 for the next few hours.

Posted by Amontillado
Mar 16, 2024 at 11:43 AM

I bought The Archive a while ago to support their forum. I haven’t used it but it’s compelling in its simplicity. The Archive, as I understand, is a fork of Notational Velocity.

Probably bug free.

Posted by satis
Mar 17, 2024 at 05:37 PM

A bit too geeky for me, even to play with for $4.99. Although it indeed seems to be stable, in 2024 I make or access notes (with a surprising number of image/pdf attachments) so extensively on iOS and iPadOS that a Mac-only solution without iCloud or an app’s own cloud sync seems positively Mesozoic.

If I wanted to implement similar wiki-functionality in text-only notes the app I’d choose would instead be Drafts, which is available on Mac/iOS/iPadOS, syncs transparently through iCloud, and supports inter-document linking in wiki style, using [[bracketed text]] to implicitly link to existing or new documents. There are many Actions available to enhance the functionality, including listing backlinks. (It can also be used to publish to websites, assemble newsletters, post to social media, and more. You can even use a Drafts action to send notes to The Archive!

https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/1wX

But that sends us back into the land of the Geeky, which doesn’t interest me.

Last summer Apple implemented rudimentary linking in Apple Notes, but unfortunately my Mac is not running the latest version of macOS and cannot utilize it fully across my devices. But it’s pretty clever with nice touches like being able in a search to create a new note with the title of your search query while in search *or* link to results: typing two greater-than symbols (>>) into a note invokes a list containing your six most recently modified notes, and tapping one instantly adds a link to that note.

With local storage, transparent sync, optional password-protected files, image/pdf attachments, document sharing, real-time collaboration and backlinks, free Apple Notes has to my surprise become my default until I find something that has its features plus Markdown and decent outlining.

Speaking of which, I still outline mainly in OmniOutliner (with mild discontent), though John Gruber’s (co-creator of Markdown) recent embrace of Bike on macOS has me giving that app a second look. (Gruber has used OmniOutliner since the 90s.) For years he’s been looking for a better cross-platform option with a good iOS app

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1277333664435765248

but seemingly has given up on that as a pipe dream.

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