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Jotdown – markdown based productivity app
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Posted by andante
Dec 20, 2015 at 07:41 PM
Hello there,
I just wanted to support CRIMPing with this new notepad with markdown and a few math-related features, which reminded me a bit of Folding Text.
Currently in alpha stage.
Best,
Andrea
Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 21, 2015 at 12:24 PM
Look interesting, but odd. I don’t want markdown-aware apps that have special syntax or logic built on idiosyncratic interpretations of standard typography, because that merely creates lock-in and makes the markdown non-portable. Kills the main reason for markdown.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 22, 2015 at 08:53 AM
Actually, it’s pretty cool. It’s mainly standard Markdown, but does have three different “modes”. Each page you create (it’s not immediately obvious that it maintains its own library of “pages”, which can be viewed in a left-hand navigation bar) can be set to a different mode: todo, note or estimate.
The Markdown used in notes is absolutely standard. The todo Markdown is slightly non-standard, in that it doesn’t use the GitHub markup (- [ ] for tasks) but uses dashes and plus signs instead (dashes to indicate a new task, plus signs to indicate a completed task). This isn’t excessively different to standard Markdown, in my view. Finally, the estimate mode is similar to Excel or any other spreadsheet; the outcomes are displayed in a manner that resembles Soulver or Calca, two very impressive Markdown-based calculator apps (I use Soulver all the time). Of the three modes, estimate is by far the most unstable; the app tends to crash as you experiment with the syntax, and doesn’t always highlight the correct bits. It took me a while to work out it’s using spreadsheet-based syntax, too, unlike e.g. Soulver or Calca, which both use standard arithmetical syntax.
Anyway, could be very interesting, once the developer has sorted out the various stability issues. Although I do feel that he’d do better to use Soulver’s syntax, because it’s very easy and fast, and already well established.