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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 9, 2017 at 12:10 AM
Amontillado wrote:
Probably not for me, but interesting. It looks a little like Ulysses and
>seems to work a little like Writers Blocks - https://speare.com
In a recent thread http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/7783/10 Brainstorm was briefly discussed. After viewing Speare’s first tutorial video, I’d say that it’s as closer to a contemporary implementation of Brainstorm as anything I’ve seen. This is exactly how I (still) mostly use Brainstorm: keeping several windows (of the same or various documents) open, and organising content as paragraph blocks, within each and from one to the other.
And of course it is rich / styled content capable, including images and videos, as one would expect from a contemporary programme.
It’s interesting how some content development concepts come back under new implementations. I wonder whether Speare’s developer is aware of Brainstorm.
Posted by Kent Sisco
Dec 10, 2017 at 01:52 AM
Hello Everyone,
My family is the developers of the Speare word processor. This thread about Speare is good candid feedback for us. We appreciate the messages and we’re learning from them.
Thank you!
Kent
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 19, 2024 at 04:39 PM
Speare has evolved a great deal since this early thread about the writing app. Here’s an overview of the latest iteration:
https://youtu.be/7iBGNaBvc74?si=27xqyi8yZjFjvh8e
It seems a highly flexible writing environment. I’m giving it a try and will report back what I find.
Steve
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Apr 19, 2024 at 07:03 PM
Hi Steve
Many thanks for the heads-up on Speare.
It has been on my radar for a long time and the development of this tool is impressive.
It ticks many important boxes for me:
- Printing (yes, I am old school and I like reading and reviewing texts on real paper.)
- Stacks
- Paragraph editor
- Split screens
- Databases
- Bi-directional links
I will give it another try again soon.
Dominik
Posted by Dormouse
Apr 19, 2024 at 08:21 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>It seems a highly flexible writing environment. I’m giving it a try and
>will report back what I find.
>
>Steve
I watched the video.
And looked at the price.
More than twice the price of Ulysses and at a similar level to Dabble and other niche products.
But afaics it doesn’t have those niche features. Export options are no better than a standard markdown editor.
I look at Lattics (a pretty complete free version with pricing at about one fifth of Speare’s) which has more features (oc it’s easy to disagree about which ones matter) and much better export. Look and feel not a million miles away. Implementation of some features is different: in the video tags seem cumbersome and there are wikilinks; in Lattics, there are #tags and @links and backlinks. I find it hard to see why I would use Speare instead of Lattics. I’ll be interested to read your observations when you report back.
What I would say is that for this type of use (writing/notes) apps like these are way beyond programs like Obsidian in usability. Though they lack the safety backup of being based on simple, accessible files in the file system.