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Strike - new Mac outliner from the Airmail folks
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Posted by NickG
Apr 21, 2018 at 07:35 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
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 21, 2018 at 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
Posted by NickG
Apr 21, 2018 at 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
Posted by Luhmann
Apr 21, 2018 at 12:10 PM
Here is the web page:
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 21, 2018 at 05:34 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:
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>http://strike-app.com/