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Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Oct 5, 2017 at 12:34 AM
Mark wrote:
>> At the moment, adding emphasis via shortcuts like ⌘I on Mac
>appears to cut and replace the text with a noticeable delay.
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>I personally haven’t experienced this in about a week’s use on Windows
>10 (64 bit, 8 MB memory). It’s been quite snappy.
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I agree. When I first saw that WM3 was being rewritten in JavaScript (probably using Electron), I was concerned about speed but even an early beta I had on my old PC, where Electron apps were mostly unusable, was snappy and responsive.
Now I just wish working with the file system was more intuitive and that it had a proper installer.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 22, 2018 at 09:07 PM
Has anyone been using WriteMonkey 3 beta here on a consistent basis?
I’m still on v. 2.7, just wondering if there is a benefit to switching over to v. 3 at this point:
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Jan 23, 2018 at 12:29 AM
No, the last update (September 2017) still felt like it needed a lot of work to me.
Dr Andus wrote:
Has anyone been using WriteMonkey 3 beta here on a consistent basis?
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>I’m still on v. 2.7, just wondering if there is a benefit to switching
>over to v. 3 at this point:
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>http://writemonkey.com/wm3/
Posted by tightbeam
Jan 23, 2018 at 11:47 AM
Version 3 is a whiff of good things to come, though it still has way too many sharp edges to use on a day-by-day basis. The Sublime Text-like menus, for example, are totally inaccessible unless you know the “magic” keystroke to invoke them. And I’m concerned that the developer isn’t serious, or at least not diligent, as the last update to v3 was back in September, and the user forums are mostly moribund, with many questions and comments unanswered. A real shame, because WriteMonkey v3 has so much potential.
Posted by washere
Jan 23, 2018 at 08:12 PM
I’ve been keeping an eye on v3B for months. Testing it with a few dark themes, looks good. It is not in my top 15 regularly used wares across genres I use on different OSes. It is not even in my fifty or so I check for log changes in history vers to see if anything exciting has been added. I can convert anything within those fifty or so apps across genres to any other within those fifty. The instructions for all is about 70 pages and also chopped into bits and placed in each source folder for that software. This inter-changeability is where WM has problems.
V2 is useless to me. V3B has all the infrastructure to be a great contender for me to maybe even include in my top 15 regularly used software. BUT he has no export. It really needs an OMPL or OTL export. The preview is supposed to theoretically export to markdown but it does not so far for me. I can get it to convert to anything but it takes a bit of work because some indents are tab indented and some sub-levels are spaces and hence a mix of both tab & spaces. Using my 70 pages of instructions, I can convert it to other formats using various wares or regexp but it is not worth my time. Not when I have dozens of others across genres, outliners visual-boards listers note-takers etc. which convert anything to anything using my own instructions in no time at all.
It is a shame, he has done all the hard work with v3 with multi panes, command palette, so many plugins, etc etc but has not yet done a basic OPML or OTL or even MD export that works from a menu. Needs OPML import or at least tab indented nodes/subnodes import too. He says he is working on his export templates. Once that is done, import should be quick too. All I can assume is that he is probably too busy in his real life to have spare time to full-steam ahead on the v3B. But he has good ideas and is stylish too, not to mention multi platform and free. So will be watching that space. Good luck to him.