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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 13, 2021 at 10:30 AM
It occurs to me that Craft could also be used as a very quick way to produce elegant blogs, rather like Medium. I’ve asked the developer whether assigning dedicated URLs/domain names is on the roadmap.
I’ve asked the developers, and they’re considering whether to enable users to generate static websites from Craft, too. I’ve had a little experiment of my own, and Craft is perfect for generating very good-looking, if (currently) simple, websites. Templates and tables are both on the roadmap, as is integration with Apple Calendar, so the future is looking bright!
One of the interesting aspects of Craft is its seamless inclusion of PDFs. In fact, you can generate a complex PDF from a Craft page, then include the PDF as an element in another Craft page. On the downside, Craft doesn’t yet index embedded PDFs (at least, my tests suggest it doesn’t), so you can’t search PDF content within Craft.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by satis
Jan 18, 2021 at 05:15 PM
Craft just announced a significant update, including export & import improvements (w/ full backlink support), draggable tabs, and Craft Connect, which will allow direct sharing of data to other apps. As of now Craft Connect “can send content directly to Things, Drafts, OmniFocus, iA Writer, Ulysses, Bear, Day One, and NotePlan” with more to come.
https://www.craft.do/s/KbvqOMU1Ejpp6k
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 22, 2021 at 07:56 PM
And Craft has just become directly relevant to this forum by introducing outlining – in the sense of folding. This is in addition to its ability to perform infinite nesting.
The latest update has slightly refined folding, and now supports saving of Craft files to local storage so you can use them as totally private, fully encrypted spaces.
Finally, the search function has been radically improved.
The app is progressing at astonishing speed, and becoming more useful all the time.
Posted by satis
Feb 22, 2021 at 08:51 PM
Its features look better and better (and the app itself looks gorgeous) and for many people the easy ability to share a link with people (outside Craft too?) is a great option for a lot of creative work. Alongside Notion’s ability to publish good-looking wiki pages the abilities of document and knowledge organizers and editors is finally expanding and adapting to how a lot of people want to work. I think its main competitor in features and looks might now be Taskade?
I don’t need to share much so I might be outside the Venn diagram of ideal users. And for me there persists an aversion to writing inside a box, something which seems idiosyncratic and somehow backwards, and I still want to host my own documents where I want. Although I grudgingly allow some apps like my task manager and calendar to maintain files and some of my most personal information, I don’t feel great about it, and I’m considering moving to more privacy-conscious alternatives (Fastmail or Posteo for mail and CalDAV calendaring, probably Things as a task manager), so I don’t want to take what I’d consider a step backwards with document editing/storage.
Still, it seems like a beautiful and intriguing app, and its feature-set is expanding quickly.
Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Feb 23, 2021 at 02:04 AM
Not only is all of this true, but they posted a little treatise on Data Ownership and it was that post that earned them my dollars for the foreseeable future.
Link: https://www.craft.do/s/5EYqvXdOUIrNu5
MadaboutDana wrote:
And Craft has just become directly relevant to this forum by introducing
>outlining – in the sense of folding. This is in addition to its
>ability to perform infinite nesting.
>
>The latest update has slightly refined folding, and now supports saving
>of Craft files to local storage so you can use them as totally private,
>fully encrypted spaces.
>
>Finally, the search function has been radically improved.
>
>The app is progressing at astonishing speed, and becoming more useful
>all the time.