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Posted by Dr Dog
Feb 23, 2019 at 01:47 PM
I’m getting towards the end of a very long history of medicine project, nearly a decade of research and writing, and for structural reasons I am going through an exercise of writing long extempore ‘notes’ on all of the aspects. It’s working well - helping me re-think and make new connections - BUT none of the apps I currently use (on Mac) do quite what I want.
The length of these notes can run into 3 or 4 thousand in a few hours of writing, so I really need typewriter mode (so no Bear) and folding - I often find myself writing in sections (so no Ulysses or Scrivener). It’d be good to index these in DTPro too, so should I be thinking about a serious text editor of some kind that does both? Or are there other options?
Many thanks.
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 23, 2019 at 02:12 PM
FoldingText and Byword come to mind.
Byword’s typewrite mode is better than FoldingText’s. Byword doesn’t have folding but paragraphs and lines can be “focused”—greying out the non-focused bits of the document.
FoldingText has folding and typewriter mode (sort of—it’s clunky). It’s also abandonware—typical for its developer—but thus it is free.
Both can edit documents imported or indexed in DEVONthink.
Posted by Drewster
Feb 23, 2019 at 02:51 PM
How about OmniOutliner? It has typewriter mode, and allows for sectional writing via nodes.
It may not satisfy your DevonThink criteria though; the newer file format of OmniOutliner doesn’t seem to play so nicely with DT.
Posted by Dr Dog
Feb 23, 2019 at 03:02 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
FoldingText and Byword come to mind.
>
>Byword’s typewrite mode is better than FoldingText’s. Byword doesn’t
>have folding but paragraphs and lines can be “focused”—greying out
>the non-focused bits of the document.
>
>FoldingText has folding and typewriter mode (sort of—it’s clunky).
>It’s also abandonware—typical for its developer—but thus it is
>free.
>Both can edit documents imported or indexed in DEVONthink.
Many thanks for this. By coincidence I had just 20 minutes ago downloaded and started to play with Folding Text. I used the demo a for a while few years ago when it first came out, but as my needs then were different I never actually bought it. I was surprised to find it free today (although there’s still a license process to go through) and I’ll see how I get on with it.
I was going to add to my previous post that a companion iOS app would be useful as my starting ideas often come early in the morning just as the dogs are waking up, but being plain text FT solves that as well (I can use Drafts to start things off and 1 Writer to read and edit).
Thanks again.
Posted by jaslar
Feb 23, 2019 at 08:34 PM
I didn’t know Folding Text was free other. So I just downloaded it. I know people have ranted about Jesse before, but this is close to a perfect editor. It has a lot of the org-mode things I always liked (select *sentence*, rearrange outline levels, move branches up and down, in addition to pretty sane editor commands generally). Thanks!
It doesn’t help on the Chromebook, but on the Mac it’s great!