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Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple
- Joe_Boogz 4y agoI have always been a fan of markdown editors. A few years back I tried inkdrop and really enjoyed it. At the time it was a fair bit more expensive. Seems the developer listened to feedback and lowered the price. Kudos to them. That being said, there are free alternatives like Obsidian that are really great. Sync with your favorite cloud provider you are already paying for. Sync with Git. Lots of plugins.
- IceWreck 4y ago> open source alternatives like Obsidian Obsidian is not open source. Its free for offline use, but thats about it.
- jq-r 4y agoAlso bloated in my experience, and has confusing navigation. Using insider's version of Notable and quite enjoying it. Wish it had a mobile version, but I guess you can't have everything.
- phren0logy 4y agoHave you tried Logseq? Might be more your style, but could also be too bloated.
- jq-r 4y agoI might give it a go thanks. I just love Notable due to it's simplicity and performance. The UI looks just right, every note can have it's own tab, there are no themes for now (apart from light and dark one), but they are nice and contrasty, the keyboard shortcuts are just right, the app is fast and responsive. I don't need anything more. Fabio (the author) knows whats he's doing and I like that he respects his users. Obsidian is more like: lets throw everything we can think of in, damned the performance, UI, or usability. The only good thing I can say is that I've managed to get both of them to play well together in iCloud Drive (or any "cloud" drive would be fine). So on my computers I use Notable, and on mobile devices I have Obsidian to edit the same notes.
- nvrspyx 4y agoI believe the developer of Notable is working on a mobile version.
- throwaway675309 4y agoI actually find obsidian is one of the nicer electron-based apps, up there with the likes of vs code. Didn't find it bloated at all as it contains mostly functionality directly related to notes. The ability to support community driven JS plug-ins is just icing on the cake and search is blazing fast. I've got 10,000 notes in there and I can search through all of them using full and partial text search in less than a second. Fascinating how we had such a completely different user experience.
- Joe_Boogz 4y agoThank you for noting this. I edited my comment which was originally meant to bring up that it’s free rather than open source.
- TuringTest 4y agoFor those who don't know it: you have logseq as a true open source competitor of Obsidian. Although it's not as much an editor as an outliner; notes are strongly hierarchical, and it's difficult to use for writing plain markdown files. But that shouldn't be a problem if your main need is note-taking.
- wodenokoto 4y agoOffline, non-commercial use. You cannot use Obsidian for work related notes unless you pay
- riidom 4y agoThey seem to have changed that recently, though it's not obvious from the pricing table. Under /eula it says: "You need to pay for Obsidian if and only if you use it for revenue-generating, work-related activities in a company that has two or more people." Not sure how to read that if you are, let's say, a freelancer. My guess is you are a one-man "company" and the other company is your customer?
- wodenokoto 4y agoI read it as freelancers are exempt. But practically speaking, if you have an employment contract or have employees and any of your notes are work related you are supposed to pay for obsidian.
- emptyparadise 4y agoWe're about to have another week of people posting note taking apps. Always a fun exercise.
- SilvanCodes 4y agoLet's add https://supernotes.app/ https://supernotes.app/ to the list right away. :p
- themadturk 4y agoNotepad++, one long markdown file with dates as top-level headings.
- mikebos 4y agoRight let's not forget https://noteplan.co https://noteplan.co
- snth 4y agoJesus- a subscription fee for a Markdown editor?
- orasiscore 4y agoHmmmm its something
- FalconSensei 4y agoCloud sync + 10gb storage space comes with a cost
- eternityforest 4y agoI like Obsidian+SyncThing
- spicybright 4y agoBut it's certainly not $5/mo. Something in the ballpark of $10/yr would be better. I can buy a private VPS for $20/yr with 30gb of storage and slap sync thing on it, and find an existing markdown editor if I wanted. That could easily pay for itself with 4 users. And that's just scraping the bottom of the barrel of low cost servers. Yes not everyone can set up a server, and yes this takes the burden off spending time doing that. But your average software engineer with some server knowledge could set this up in a day. The value proposition is just not there.
- 20after4 4y agoIn a day? I'd think closer to an hour than a day to set up.
- spicybright 4y agoI would want to add time for a bit of stress testing, backups, etc. If I'm building something that needs to "stand the test of time", I find a day lets me relax, meander, think it through, and not get stressed over not moving fast enough. I've also learned from experience to always over estimate these things ;)
- QuikAccount 4y agoIf I recall this is written by 1 guy in Japan. Tried it a while back and it was very nice although I wouldn't subscribe at that price I tried it at and would rather just buy Sublime. Seems it went down from $10ish to $5 which is more reasonable. The dev also maintains a blog that I find pretty neat https://blog.inkdrop.app/ https://blog.inkdrop.app/
- aldens 4y agoHe also has a great youtube channel where he posts devlog type stuff: https://www.youtube.com/c/devaslife https://www.youtube.com/c/devaslife
- bobuk 4y agoInkdrop and Obsidian both have the same issue for me - electron. I will not tire of recommending people FSnotes [1]. Native (mac/ios only), opensource, one time payment (if you want it), sync with iCloud, git and TextBundle support. Not affiliated, just a big fan. [1]: https://fsnot.es/ https://fsnot.es/
- hokumguru 4y agoIsn’t inkdrop React Native? The maker has a quite nice YouTube channel where he writes RN and contributes regularly to RN open source.
- nguyenkien 4y agoDesktop app use electron.
- themadturk 4y agoThough I usually feel the same, Obsidian is one of the lightest and most responsive Electron apps I've ever used. (Not using it anymore, because I didn't like on mobile.)
- lelandfe 4y agoIt's still very clear that it's not a native Mac application. All the classic Electron issues are present: - Close the main window and try to figure out how to get it to reopen. This is probably the reason Cmd-W doesn't actually close the window (unlike every other app). - macOS menubars are still just empty defaults. All functionality is exposed in custom in-app menus, rendering it all undiscoverable through the Cmd-? search. - Wonky context menus that don't follow macOS standards. E.g. right click on a note and type the first letter of the action you want. Result: nothing. - Weird, cross-platform verbiage litters the app. E.g. "open in system explorer" instead of "open in Finder"; some hotkey tooltips say "Ctrl/Cmd," while others use the Cmd symbol "⌘" - Horrendous focus styling and keyboard support – they've cast out all the good native functionality here. Try Tab-bing around the app and attempt to figure out what's focused. This is so much worse than most Electron apps, as Chromium's a11y is typically a big cachet. Gosh, I could keep going. It's a terrific app, and this is all fixable, but boy does Obsidian wear those Electron origins on it's sleeves today.
- williamstein 4y agoThere is a typo on the landing page. The screenshot on the right says “two-clumn” instead of “two-column”.
- notum 4y agoAs cool as this looks I can never see myself placing something as important as my notes in a closed source app under a locked-in vendor. https://joplinapp.org/ https://joplinapp.org/ does the trick for me, Synology NAS makes sure notes are copied over to multiple devices at any given time.
- rPlayer6554 4y agoI love Joplin but the Android app really needs an update. It's missing a lot of important features that are available on desktop.
- elondaits 4y agoWhat I don’t feel comfortable with from generic file sync solutions is the uncertain conflict resolution handling. At least with Evernote (far from perfect) I get a dialog informing me a conflict was found and it keeps both versions allowing me to do a manual merge.
- dexterdog 4y agoSynching does that and is open source. I use obsidian and synching to keep everything synced from my laptop to my phone and server.
- spicybright 4y agoCan attest. Any conflict it can't resolve, it'll add the other version it's comparing and append "(Conflict from 5/7/20 1:00pm)" or something to it's name. Not saying it's bullet proof, but I've never lost anything before.
- kqr 4y agoI was a very early adopter and there was a time when it hit race conditions that somehow caused it to delete all files in a shared directory. ...that has not happened in the last few years, despite my intensified usage.
- taesu 4y agoI use github for this.
- thumbcore 4y agoJoke's on you, I use AsciiDoc
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- crooked-v 4y agoYet another subscription-based editor app that... doesn't seem to add anything significant compared to all the other subscription-based editor apps. And since it can't operate off the file system, you can't even painlessly switch to the inevitable next subscription-based editor app.
- FinnKuhn 4y agoI would honestly just use something like notable and sync the files over any cloud service. notable: https://notable.app/ https://notable.app/
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoVimwiki is just the thing for markdown note taking for us command line curmudgeons , and the resulting “wiki”, just a collection of interlinked markdown files, happens to be compatible with Obsidian for those times I need a graph visualization.
- lorenzfx 4y agoI'm also always coming back to vimwiki after trying something else (mostly because I'm so used to (n)vim). I still want to give zk [1] a try though (but it's also vim based). The one killer feature for me would be a gui for neovim that can display images. (Inserting images from the clipboard works with clipboard-image.nvim.) [1] https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk/ https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk/
- lorenzfx 4y agoThe space of markdown based note taking apps is getting more and more crowded. I'm wondering how many more are sustainable, especially as many free (and open source) ones are available. Regarding Inkdrop: this page really doesn't tell me what's their USP, why would I use this over something like Obsidian or Roam (just to name some examples)?
- withinboredom 4y agoI absolutely love Inkdrop. Its pretty much my go-to drafting editor. I like that it doesn't spellcheck or grammar check by default -- perfect for drafts where you just need to get your ideas down and before editing. I used to use gists, but my browser wanted to spellcheck me all the darn time. I just want to write with a bit of sensible formatting, no distractions.
- nathias 4y agoisn't the point of making your notes in markdown that you have it in a simple file and use your file manager to manage notes ...
- qwerty456127 4y agoThere already is quite a market of note taking and organizing apps and Markdown editors. How is this one better than the rest of them? I always am curious because none is actually perfect. For any given app in this genre I can suggest dozens of improvements. This means there always is a real chance another one is going to be better.
- kushan2020 4y agoThere is also https://bangle.io https://bangle.io - an open source web app for markdown notes right from your computer. Note: I’m the author of the project.
- rschachte 4y agoLooks very nice
- rschachte 4y agoIt's a very very nice app and I love his Youtube channel, I hope he takes off. Curious why Notion wouldn't be used (free) over this?