Oh, and the ever-cool Simplenote now supports basic Markdown (with a nice preview function). That's the macOS version - I don't know if the iOS version has caught up yet. Must check.

The new Windows version does, too.

Not yet in iOS.

The implementation of markdown is a bit odd. You need to click a command in the inspector to tell the app the text is markdown. Or, you can wait for some unspecified period of time and the app will figure it out itself. Since Simplenote is nothing but a plain text editor, I wonder why it just doesn't assume everything is markdown. That assumption won't break anything.

MadaboutDana wrote:

Oh, and the ever-cool Simplenote now supports basic Markdown (with a
nice preview function). That's the macOS version - I don't know if the
iOS version has caught up yet. Must check.

Paul Korm wrote:

The implementation of markdown is a bit odd. You need to click a
command in the inspector to tell the app the text is markdown.

In the Windows version new notes are automatically MD - there is a button that toggles between Preview and Edit mode. For existing notes, you have to enable MD mode via the Info icon.

Yes, interesting one, Paul - it's positively identified a few Markdown notes (synced with other apps), but failed to identify a few more.

Ah well, work in progress - and pretty cool for free.

the pretty much comparable to 'TheArchive'

i've it installed and havent tested/used it yet cos it required a login

i dont imagine it to uniquely different than many other things like dropbox paper, etc.

various sites and reviews have said it was very featureless (and there's so many things that are already featureless so..)

I just noticed that Simplenote (on web and Android, anyhow) now offers to do checklists (tap to mark done) as a formatting option. It's still not as easy to reorder lines as Google Keep is. But handy on occasion, I imagine.

Correction: tasks are available on the Mac, Android, and Windows clients. Not on iOS, not on the web version.

jaslar wrote:

I just noticed that Simplenote (on web and Android, anyhow) now offers
to do checklists (tap to mark done) as a formatting option. It's still
not as easy to reorder lines as Google Keep is. But handy on occasion, I
imagine.

I think "tasks" are in the iOS version -- on my iPad, in Simplenote, there's an icon in the upper right menubar that looks like a column of three checkmarks. When a row of text is selected and that icon is pressed, the row gets a circular checkbox in front of it, that can be toggled checked/unchecked.

jaslar wrote:

Correction: tasks are available on the Mac, Android, and Windows
clients. Not on iOS, not on the web version.

Hm, that's quite cool. I don't use SimpleNote much, but having a "quickie" task platform would be useful, prior to transferring the task to DynaList.

Honestly, I have got to learn to read the whole screen and poke around a little more before posting. Correction: tasks are available on ALL current versions of the app: web (I had missed the "new web version" at log in), iOS (unless you happen to have an old iPad 2 not running the latest OS, which is my case), and the Mac, Windows, and Android clients (tested). Looking at one of the screen shots, it looked like SimpleNote will now embed photos, but I haven't figured out how. Using Markdown, then preview, I can LINK to images. That's an improvement.

As others have noted, it's a handy "grab bag" function for those of us who use SimpleNote regularly. I've kind of migrated to using Google Keep for various checklists (grocery, home, work) because it's relatively easy to move things around. Not so easy in SimpleNote. But SimpleNote continues to offer a very clean UI, and I like that it's even more Chromebook friendly.

Paul Korm wrote:

I think "tasks" are in the iOS version -- on my iPad, in Simplenote,
there's an icon in the upper right menubar that looks like a column of
three checkmarks. When a row of text is selected and that icon is
pressed, the row gets a circular checkbox in front of it, that can be
toggled checked/unchecked.

jaslar wrote:
Correction: tasks are available on the Mac, Android, and Windows
>clients. Not on iOS, not on the web version.