4 ms·
I've looked at your project for the purposes of writing a book but it feels like the technology should be able to do so much more and make things easier. These
by pknight 13y ago
I've looked at your project for the purposes of writing a book but it feels like the technology should be able to do so much more and make things easier.
These were my initial penflip impressions:
* I'm ambivalent to markup, it's not a big feature to me. It's another thing to get used to when I'm really looking for book writing to make things easier straight away.
* It makes certain actions more tedious. I want to be able to write subsections, move 'm around if need be. I don't want to be tasked with creating files for chapters and what not.
* It's far too technical looking. It's too much like Git. Git is great for code, I love it for that. But Git is pretty involved. Writing should be made easy. The only thing hard about writing should be the writing itself. I don't want to read a manual to learn how to use the tool. If I'm writing a book, all I need to know is how do I create chapter 1 and start typing from there. Everything else becomes information overload. Surely there must be a nicer way to get the benefits of Git for writing but for an audience that doesn't want to think technical.
I do recognize your project is still in the early stages and you've purposely kept your feature list small to begin with. I hope it becomes something huge and I agree with you the market is there.
- guynamedloren 13y agoThanks for the feedback, and for checking out Penflip. Usability is definitely not a trivial task to solve, especially while trying to maintain all of the version control power that comes with git. That said, when was the last time you played around with Penflip? I've received lots of similar feedback (too technical, too hard to use, cluttered UI) so I'm continually stripping down the interface and simplifying everything. In the past few weeks the writing interface has been cleaned up quite a bit. Still has a ways to go, but it's getting there.