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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 31, 2016 at 07:22 PM
All this talk of LightPaper has reignited my interest - I confess I’ve been using Ulysses and LetterSpace (much) more frequently in the recent past.
Well! Imagine my surprise, upon visiting the website (http://lightpaper.42squares.in), to discover that LightPaper is maturing into a truly sensational app.
The latest version (1.2) includes:
- a full folder navigator, where you can put your favourite folders, star favourites and so on
- scratch notes from a mini-notepad in the menu bar (scratch notes also appear in the navigator)
- “shadow” notes, allowing you to make notes for specific apps, website and certain documents - notes that are automatically associated with those apps/websites/documents
- quick open feature (like the one in Ulysses and LetterSpace)
- open API for JavaScript and AppleScript
- a powerful Preview feature that will also allow you to preview blog/website posts as they will appear. Dunno how that one works, but I’m looking forward to trying it out
- multiple flavours of Markdown, including MultiMarkdown and GitHub-Flavoured Markdown (GFM); also math rendering (using external JS plugins)
- for real techies, support for Mermaid and Jekyll
- tabs
- custom styles, with online library of user-contributed ones (like Ulysses)
- distraction-free mode for the serious writers among us
- sense of humour (one of the reviews quoted on the website: “...really? Another Markdown editor?” - Anonymous Coward on Reddit). Well, I thought it was funny!
plus a free trial and a very reasonable price. Wow! I’ve fallen in love again!
But, no folding. Shame. I suppose if I were very enterprising, I’d write my own folding code (or nick somebody else’s JavaScript). But that way lies madness…
Cheers!
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 14, 2016 at 12:03 AM
yet another (Win and Linux)...
Ghostwriter
http://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Mar 14, 2016 at 12:56 AM
And another one: Typora http://www.typora.io/
It’s quite nice, but unfortunately, there’s a major issue with input lag on my computer.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 19, 2016 at 12:04 AM
Here is another browser-based online/offline Markdown editor: Classeur, from Ireland, I believe.
This might be the most sophisticated one I’ve seen so far (or at least up there with Calmly Writer):
Posted by jaslar
Apr 30, 2018 at 07:10 PM
I happened to run across this searching for Calmly Writer in the archives. Classeur, which does look pretty good, is shutting down on May 31, 2018.