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Posted by Dr Andus
May 22, 2014 at 08:01 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Laverna, online Markdown editor with local storage, encryption, multiple
>notebook support, Dropbox syncing, tasks and more:
>https://laverna.cc/
Alexander, thanks for posting this. Editorially is shutting down this month, and I’ve been looking for a replacement, and this looks just the ticket! I see that they’re comparing themselves to Evernote. That looks a bit (over)ambitious. However, this might be a perfect replacement for Editorially, in combination with Dropbox.
Posted by Dr Andus
May 22, 2014 at 08:29 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Editorially is shutting down this
>month, and I’ve been looking for a replacement, and this looks just the
>ticket! I see that they’re comparing themselves to Evernote. That looks
>a bit (over)ambitious. However, this might be a perfect replacement for
>Editorially, in combination with Dropbox.
Hm, syncing with Dropbox is a bit choppy (at least in Firefox 29). This is a bit of a concern. I would want a bit more confirmation that a document had been synced successfully.
Also, the files are saved as .json, which is not ideal, if one would want to carry on editing the file in a plain text editor locally. At the moment copy and paste seems to be the only way to export and import text within the browser interface. Also, it’s not that easy to see within the .json file in Dropbox whether all recent changes have been saved, as the JSON code makes it difficult to check in a long document.
Posted by Dr Andus
May 23, 2014 at 07:47 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Hm, syncing with Dropbox is a bit choppy (at least in Firefox 29). This
>is a bit of a concern. I would want a bit more confirmation that a
>document had been synced successfully.
I don’t want to be too harsh on Laverna, as it’s still in beta, but the Dropbox function is not working properly in the browsers and on the machines I use (Firefox, Chrome, Win7 & Chromebook). If I just hit sync, nothing happens. The only way I was able to trigger it was to change the layout of the page (from “normal” to “fullscreen”, for instance), and then the sync kicks in (which I’m sure is not how it was intended to work). However, then the indicator keeps turning and does not stop by itself, so you don’t know whether the sync has successfully completed or not. Even when I monitored the process in Dropbox, not all the files would sync all the time. This makes it currently an unreliable cloud solution, especially if you’re using someone else’s computer that you leave behind for good, with the false hope that the files had synced.
But otherwise it’s a promising project, I hope they’ll be able to iron these issues out.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 11, 2014 at 09:51 PM
Here is something (haven’t had a chance to try it yet) that is both Markdown and WYSIWYG:
Marko Editor
http://marko-editor.com/
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 16, 2014 at 07:54 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Here is something (haven’t had a chance to try it yet) that is both Markdown and WYSIWYG:
>Marko Editor
>http://marko-editor.com/
Thanks for this. It seems rather similar to Markdown Pad but is cross platform.
In addition it support CriticMarkup which I was not familiar with, but which looks brilliantly intuitive for reviewing plain texts—at least by a single person. I visited its site http://criticmarkup.com/ and found it quite interesting.