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I'm working on an Evernote clone for markdown. I find that almost all my notes are text. I hate the buggy EN editor, it's where I constantly think the app could

I'm working on an Evernote clone for markdown. I find that almost all my notes are text. I hate the buggy EN editor, it's where I constantly think the app could do better and wonder what the heck all those engineers are doing... Here's the gist of my idea: Similar UI like EN, but designed along UX experience of VSCode. It's an Electron app using Monaco as the editor. Also uses a similar concept like VSCode's workspaces. Each workspace is indexed for quick search and has a powerful tagging system (just like EN has). The idea is to support different file types for notes over time, but it will be first and foremost designed for markdown. For me, it is essential that I can use Dropbox, GitHub, or a different provider to sync my notes and that I don't have to trust my note taking tool to do that. Anybody interested? (I know there are different tools like this already, but nothing that a) tracks EN's UX closely, and b) is comparable in usability and hackability to something like VSCode.) Edit: notes are simply text files. ".md" or whatever you want.

erkkonet 8y ago
I like the concept - do you have any plans for a mobile client and how the UX would translate to smaller displays? In terms of essentials, version history would be on my list, perhaps using git as a backend so that you can access the notes with other tools as well.
- lukebuehler 8y ago
  I do not have any plans for a mobile client yet. I have thought about it quite a bit, but I'm not sure what would work best there in relation to what I have proposed. What is clear to me, especially from my own experience, is that there are really two main note-taking "activities": the quick memento from mobile, often just a phrase, or picture, etc. And then the sustained effort to write notes that will remain a source of knowledge for me for years to come. Many of my notes are thousands of words long (book notes, research for academic papers, etc). I want to solve the latter use-case once and for all. When it comes to producing more sophisticated knowledge items, I'm usually on my laptop or desktop computer.

erkkonet 8y ago

I like the concept - do you have any plans for a mobile client and how the UX would translate to smaller displays? In terms of essentials, version history would be on my list, perhaps using git as a backend so that you can access the notes with other tools as well.

lukebuehler 8y ago
I do not have any plans for a mobile client yet. I have thought about it quite a bit, but I'm not sure what would work best there in relation to what I have proposed. What is clear to me, especially from my own experience, is that there are really two main note-taking "activities": the quick memento from mobile, often just a phrase, or picture, etc. And then the sustained effort to write notes that will remain a source of knowledge for me for years to come. Many of my notes are thousands of words long (book notes, research for academic papers, etc). I want to solve the latter use-case once and for all. When it comes to producing more sophisticated knowledge items, I'm usually on my laptop or desktop computer.