Strike - new Mac outliner from the Airmail folks

Started by NickG on 4/21/2018
NickG 4/21/2018 7:35 am
Nebula, who do Airmail (mail app for IOS, Android, Mac OS) are beta testing a new 2-pane outliner called Strike - "Shared outline documents for Mac"

It's pretty basic right now. Supports Markdown and images - it looks a little like Bear

No idea how the sharing will work - not implemented yet
Paul Korm 4/21/2018 10:07 am
That would be interesting. I believe the developer of Airmail is Bloop, no? "Strike" must be deep under the radar.

NickG wrote:
Nebula, who do Airmail (mail app for IOS, Android, Mac OS) are beta
testing a new 2-pane outliner called Strike - "Shared outline documents
for Mac"

It's pretty basic right now. Supports Markdown and images - it looks a
little like Bear

No idea how the sharing will work - not implemented yet
NickG 4/21/2018 10:19 am


Paul Korm wrote:
That would be interesting. I believe the developer of Airmail is
Bloop, no? "Strike" must be deep under the radar.

>

Yes, Bloop - you're right. All the comms about Strike has come via the Airmail people, though. Side project? Partnership? Don't know.

BTW, they're also testing an RSS reader, Cappuccino, if that's of any interest to anyone
>It's pretty basic right now. Supports Markdown and images - it looks a
>little like Bear
>
>No idea how the sharing will work - not implemented yet
Luhmann 4/21/2018 12:10 pm
Here is the web page:

http://strike-app.com/
Paul Korm 4/21/2018 5:34 pm
Thank you for the link. The app can be obtained by logging in with a Microsoft account.

Just working with it for a while -- some impressions. It has a nice, modern, clean interface. Interesting features include adding author's notations ("notes") inline -- the appearance is similar to Acrobat's sticky notes annotations. Files can be attached to documents. I don't see how the "shared edits" work -- probably not implemented yet. Versioning isn't turned on, but would probably be using macOS versioning when it is.

Downside as far as I'm concerned is that the documents's are macOS "packages" (a type of folder) whose content is a collection of five or more binary and .plist (XML) files. There is no ability yet to export to other formats -- so no obvious portability. Perhaps export to markdown or docx will come later? Printing is also broken -- scaling and margins are all out of whack with no settings available to fix them.

It's a beta for sure -- I assume full features, fit and finish will come along some other time.

Luhmann wrote:
Here is the web page:

http://strike-app.com/
satis 5/9/2018 1:47 pm
Just logged in from my Github account, downloaded the latest beta. It's clean, fast, limited. Hard to switch from one pane to the other, or to see which pane has focus. Interesting beta, but I'm not sure where it fits for me in terms of note-taking or document creation, so I deleted it. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.
satis 7/4/2018 1:59 pm
Strike is looking nice. Mac beta available for download, iOS beta in TestFlight.

http://strike-app.com/