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Electron apps tend to fall down in the minutiae of the little things that native apps get right (around things like selection, scrolling, various small affordan
by joshka 4mo ago
Electron apps tend to fall down in the minutiae of the little things that native apps get right (around things like selection, scrolling, various small affordances across various levels). Would love to see something like this be more native app upfront, than starting out with something that will always leave that top 10% of what makes a nice feeling app unobtainable.
You win hard on this if you have the best possible UX that feels natural to drive. You just also ran if not because obsidian/notion etc. are already there (and have the people to put into those random edge cases that make electron apps bad).
- wollowollo 4mo agoThis is a very mac-centric view. It makes business sense to plan for multiplatform.
- engomez 4mo agoYes, we're working on Linux/Windows beyond the CLI/WebUI, Electron enables us to do that.
- joshka 4mo agoThe same comments apply to each OS - scrolling / selection / hotkeys / controls / etc. all feel differently on each OS. macOS just has the general best of breed consistency with its own UX guidelines.
- kstrauser 4mo agoYup. Much as I love the idea of Obsidian, for instance, I find it in an uncanny valley of almost a Mac app but not. That makes it feel stranger to me than something like Emacs, which doesn’t bother even trying, and so doesn’t feel as weird.
- vgupta1998 4mo ago[dead]