I have been testing this for months, he has now made it stable. My dark theme screens:

https://ibb.co/gAroDS

Click top-right toggle icon to toggle & see/edit code:

https://ibb.co/mErYf7


Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtyaQWWWV-CECTabb-GWiLg/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0


Download multi-platfrom versions from site:

https://boostnote.io/


Github:
https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote

Download link for various platforms:

https://boostnote.io/#download

On Windows, in Start-button groups, it is in a group called:
MAISIN&CO.,inc


As well as interface theme, can choose from many Editor themes too:

https://ibb.co/m4kenn

https://ibb.co/ewGVtS

https://ibb.co/gmvC7n


Bootnote (menu, top-left): Preferences: Interface (left tabs)

shortcut: CTRL + , (Comma)

Nice. Basic features. There's a lot going on in the markdown space to compete with.

What makes this better than Atom or Sublime (ok, it's free?).

jaslar wrote:

What makes this better than Atom or Sublime (ok, it's free?).

Nice compliment for it to be equivalent to atom & sublime, but it isn't. Much lighter, less features and not having thousands of plugins. Different genre. A bit like a markdown IDE where you can see code next to the live output preview.

Also has dropbox features so can work on a document from anywhere. Mainly desktop, android ver is basic & keeps crashing like Win version used to, I gave feedback followed by others & he fixed it. Syncing via dropbox in a very good editor environment, unlike other editors with basic features that blind you too, has a lot of potential for non-programmers too.

It's also a code snippet syntax app, can input & highlight code from a hundred different languages with relevant highlighting in same note, mainly for coders.

It's different to Typora which I recommended here a while back and also a top markdown editor. Different genre again. This is mainly a note-taking app for coders. Hence some here will see the potential for other areas too as it has a combo of features:

If a note-taking maniac type of person does markdown (many will in future) + in same notes across devices from free cloud (dropbox, not some guy charging you subscription monthly for his transient app & reading your data) + wanting to see live preview markdown output + all in a classy editor that has all the basic features (unlike many hyped baby apps on github I could mention) + many themes + free + open source so branches or input by others are possible, then this is it.

I've taken a look at BoostNote, but have to say that open-source Joplin - with its support for GitHub Markdown and Math, backed up by seamless end-to-end encryption - suits my needs much better (but then I don't often produce programming code).

Joplin doesn't have the same range of plugins, of course; I can see that being attractive.

Joplin is in my top 5 android markdown apps. Slim pickings on android. I also like his onedrive/nextcloud sync & encryption. Definitely a contender. When it comes to plugins, sublime plus atom & MS vs code are king. Sublime & atom are powerful for markdown too with the right plugins.

Another thing about the snippet code feature is that they are like chapters within the same note. Boostnote is only @ version 0.1. I have several suggestions for him yet, it can be uniquely powerful.

Main thing for me wrt to markdown editors, is the live output. Plus having it in a dual pane window system. So one sees as you code, what the hell the output looks like in the next window pane. Good for markdown blog posts. The other editor I like handling markdown dual pane live output well has limited features and in beta, and not open source.

Open source is important. Because if something is open source and gathers a large following (because it's good), it will not die with the dev not having time in future etc etc, other devs/users join in or take over. i.e. the user time investment in it is not wasted, and it grows and evolves.

Yes, the snippet thing is cool - it's one of the reasons I like Quiver so much, and am so disappointed it hasn't made its way to iOS (well, it has, but it's effectively useless).

Snippets can be used as sub-nodes in the note, sort of outliner structure, same note having many sub-nodes, why BoostNote can be even more powerful.

Joplin is mainly potential right now, it is very basic or more frankly has no editor features. It is not comparable to Quiver which is a proper editor, like comparing MS NotePad to MS Word. Quiver is in the same league as BoostNote.

I don't need encryption and use cloud rarely, free scheme entry ones as in DropBox, OneDrive & Google Drive.

If you need end-2-end encryption, you don't have to limit your software to those few wares that do e-2-e, small minority and usually not the best at what they do. There are Swiss cloud firms that do e-2-e like Tresorit which costs only slightly more than DropBox pricing. Or SpiderOak which costs more. Then you can use whatever software you like.

Ooh, now, I don't agree with that. Well, I do agree, in that the editor is a totally basic text editor, without the hybrid Preview we're all getting used to now thanks to Ulysses, Bear etc.

But Joplin's editor supports the full GitHub syntax plus a bunch of other goodies (e.g. Math markup), and the dual-pane preview makes the lack of hybrid preview much less problematic. You can produce relatively sophisticated pages in Joplin (although it doesn't support HTML syntax, which is a shame in my view).

However: no, it's not in the least like BoostNote or Google when it comes to snippets. But it does have a pleasant combination of folders and tags.

washere wrote:

>Joplin is mainly potential right now, it is very basic or more frankly
has no editor features. It is not comparable to Quiver which is a proper
editor, like comparing MS NotePad to MS Word. Quiver is in the same
league as BoostNote.

I was grumbling to myself, "I already have Atom set up as a Markdown editor and it works great, why would I need this?"

Then I saw the iOS (and Android) links. If you can pass files back and forth between your desktop and mobile devices, that's a reason to grab this for sure.

I'm very pleased with Joplin – it works across my Android phone, iPad, a couple of Macs and a Windows portable. The synchronisation is very efficient (and tells you exactly what's going on, which is more than most of them do). The tagging works well (although you can't tag items in the mobile versions, for some reason), and it's got folders. Finally, it uses the full range of GitHub Markdown syntax, meaning you can do tasks, tables and so on.

Very nice little app.

i think 'Joplin' is for a different uses, like it doesnt have a tree view

heard good things about 'boost' and it seems to be focused on code snippets

Joplin doesnt seem usable to me without a tree view, still testing it

Not quite sure what you mean here, doablesoftware: Joplin does have a folder view, plus a tags view. Okay, so the folder view is only a single level, but it's still useful. And the tags view makes the app even more flexible. The desktop version keeps both views open all the time; no, they don't stay open all the time in the mobile apps, but that's just practical; it's easy enough to open the left-hand navigation bar from the menu button at the top.

Sounds to me like you ought to take a good look at TextNut or MWeb (both on Mac/iOS); they'd certainly meet your needs. Others have suggested Write!, which is very powerful, and which I can thoroughly recommend from personal use - I have a lifetime subscription, in fact. You are, if I may say so, quick to dismiss apps that don't meet your not entirely well-defined criteria. Another app that would broadly meet your criteria is Keep It, which, in response to a question you posed on another thread, is where I manage things like web pages (saved out as PDF files); I recently replaced Curiota with Keep It because the latter has a full multilayer folder tree, also supports "smart" folders (called bundles), and also has tags. Plus the search function is fast and effective (I'm not sure why you make such a distinction between "titles only" and "content only"; in my experience such differentiation is rarely useful, but if you want it, Keep It does it; it also allows you to search on comments, tags and source [i.e. web pages you saved out using Keep It]).

In fact, after reflecting on the various requirements you've mentioned in various threads, I'd suggest Keep It is probably one of the apps you ought to prioritise.

Cheers,
Bill

doablesoftware wrote:

i think 'Joplin' is for a different uses, like it doesnt have a tree
view

heard good things about 'boost' and it seems to be focused on code
snippets

Joplin doesnt seem usable to me without a tree view, still testing it

folder view is only a single level

And the tags view makes the app even more flexible.

good look at TextNut or MWeb

Write!,

quick to dismiss apps that don’t meet your not entirely well-defined criteria.

Keep It, s where I manage things like web pages (saved out as PDF files);

- 'folder view is only a single level - yes, not tree view

* 'TextNut or MWeb' - will look into
* Write! - still looking into

- 'not sure why you make such a distinction between “titles only” and “content only”; in my experience such differentiation is rarely useful'
- will raise on a diff post, too big of a topic

- 'tagging' - i haven't yet seen any good uses of 'tagging' tho if someone had some especially good links, would like to see it

- 'quick to dismiss apps that don’t meet your not entirely well-defined criteria.'
- that's good to know that's one impression, i know what are the important and minimal needs and i know what is important overall (tho ill be happy to see evidence to the contrary for anyone that knows on the 'search' topic)
- maybe tagging is a better, tho would seem unlikely


**annotation**

* 'Keep It' - if this can highlight and save notes, and upon returning to the same webpage, it shows the info/notes you put, then that would fit for the annotation use case
- 'has a full multilayer folder tree' - tree view? ok
- 'Curiota' - does not

- '“smart” folders (called bundles)' - unknown
- 'search on comments, tags and source' - unsure if helpful/useful/good

the needs are separate, but will look into 'keep it' to see if it does the main needs all in one software, and most importantly, does them well

Just noticed that someone put together a nice Markdown cheatsheet for Boostnote.

https://github.com/TobseF/boostnote-markdown-cheatsheet/blob/master/README.md

They also have an active Twitter feed detailing updates.

https://twitter.com/boostnoteapp

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