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Posted by washere
Apr 5, 2020 at 05:24 PM
One app that is also frozen in time is what the doc suggested, Outline 4D. However it has certain unique features for organizing, overview of large projects etc, that I still use it. Often such devs see updating and modernizing the product with a new GUI library and new features basically means coding from scratch. These are big projects and at a stage in their life they just can’t do that any more for whatever reasons. Not for the returns.
I’m sure if they were offered a million upfront they’d manage to somehow redo it and modernize and evolve it. That’s how many apps become abandonware or virtually so. Effort needed vs Projected return. Also sometimes they forgot much of what they coded in the first place, as these have thousands of lines of code if not tens of thousands. Most don’t document or go fully modular when coding. So years later looks like a plate of spaghetti Bolognese.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 5, 2020 at 05:39 PM
A rather good free option would be open-source Manuscripts, a writing tool for academic writing in particular:
https://www.manuscriptsapp.com
It’s a large program, but does what it does extremely well. It’s optimised for highly structured papers.
Posted by thouqht
Apr 5, 2020 at 08:48 PM
Thanks for all the feedback. I realized that as long as you put blank space between paragraphs and after headings, you can use Roam Research or Dynalist and simply format it all in vim with a single command.
I’ve really been loving Roam, so I think I’m going to give that a shot. It *seems* like roam is going to be a safe bet for at least a while and I’m hesitant to develop a workflow around a dead software.
Posted by Lucas
Apr 5, 2020 at 08:50 PM
Interesting about Manuscripts. I didn’t know it. At first I had it conflated with “Manuskript” (http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/), but I see that it is different. It looks awesome. However, there seem to have been no updates since the launch in October, and the forum is filled with spam. Plus the website’s security certificate is outdated. I hope it continues to be developed.
Posted by tightbeam
Apr 6, 2020 at 11:24 AM
A Mac app, isn’t it? As washere pointed out, and as I’ve pointed out in the past, it’d be *really* helpful to identify apps as Mac, Windows, or whatever when first mentioning them.
MadaboutDana wrote:
A rather good free option would be open-source Manuscripts, a writing
>tool for academic writing in particular:
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>https://www.manuscriptsapp.com
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>It’s a large program, but does what it does extremely well.
>It’s optimised for highly structured papers.