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Posted by Hugh
Jun 29, 2015 at 10:04 AM
Lucas wrote:
>Indeed, I still pine for the same developer’s other long-lost project:
>Mori. That’s a piece of software I would be willing to pay for again.
Yes, indeed. It was still “alive” when I moved from Windows to the Mac, and was one of the first OS X licenses I purchased.
About the rant: on a business level, entirely justified, Steve. Given the regard in which Jesse was held as a developer when I moved to the Mac, I can only imagine that there must be non-business reasons for what has happened.
Posted by Gorski
Jun 30, 2015 at 01:15 AM
Well, here’s how Jesse explains himself.
http://jessegrosjean.gitbooks.io/foldingtext-for-atom-user-s-guide/content/getting_started.html
> Why FoldingText for Atom
> In 2007 I created TaskPaper in response to what I thought were overly complex “todo” apps at the time. TaskPaper is a plain text format together with a syntax highlighting editor. It presents your todo’s in a text outline without any “user interface” in the way.
> I then began a long journey of trying to extend TaskPaper’s plain text outline interface to do more. I added more outliner features. I added outline filtering. I addopted Markdown syntax. The end result is FoldingText for Mac.
> At some point TaskPaper’s original design became a liability. It started as a simplifying factor that put the user in control. But each new feature needed a new syntax rule. Eventaully all those rules created more complexity then they solved.
> A New Start
> FoldingText for Atom is a restart.
> I’ve zoomed back to 2007 and taken the simple text outline that I liked so much about TaskPaper. But I ditched the plain text editor interface. And restarted with a more traditional outliner editor interface.
> For the last year I’ve been zooming forward again. Redoing the features that I added to TaskPaper over the years. But this time without the need that they work in a syntax highlighting plain text editor.
> It’s been a wonderfuly simplifiying process. There’s still lots to do, but I think the foundation is ready.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 30, 2015 at 10:44 AM
Thanks for the update. Since most of the innovation in editors seems to be happening in products aimed at software development and team collaboration—a very large market and growing—it perhaps makes sense that FoldingText’s newest incarnation would appear in Atom because it fits well with users who have a lot of detailed tasks to track in doing thir work.
It’s not like there are dozens of people working with Jesse to develop products—AFAIK, he’s on his own—so he’ll have to pick and choose where to best invest his time. Inevitably some users will be left behind and disappointed, but independent developers have to make tradeoffs that are guaranteed to please some and really displease others. The scenario has been part of the history of development for a very long time.
Posted by jaslar
Jan 24, 2018 at 01:01 AM
I was telling someone that I really liked Editorial on iOS. They mentioned the Atom text editor. What I remember about it: free, multiplatform, lots of plugins. The title of this article (from last July): “Turn Atom into the Best Markdown Editor for Mac.” He writes, “For those of you who use Editorial app on iOS for writing like I do, these Atom packages that I mention below should make the experience really similar.”
Here’s the link: https://www.news47ell.com/how-to/atom-best-markdown-editor-mac/
Off to CRIMP.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Jan 24, 2018 at 01:08 AM
Hope you have a powerful computer. Atom is pretty much the poster-child for avoiding Electron apps for performance reasons….
jaslar wrote:
I was telling someone that I really liked Editorial on iOS. They
>mentioned the Atom text editor. What I remember about it: free,
>multiplatform, lots of plugins. The title of this article (from last
>July): “Turn Atom into the Best Markdown Editor for Mac.” He writes,
>“For those of you who use Editorial app on iOS for writing like I do,
>these Atom packages that I mention below should make the experience
>really similar.”
>
>Here’s the link:
>https://www.news47ell.com/how-to/atom-best-markdown-editor-mac/
>
>Off to CRIMP.