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  • That landing page looks like it's straight out of Claude Code (The Serif font is almost a giveaway these days). The interface will not look native on any platform.

    There's so many Markdown editors for all platforms, what made you join this crowded niche?

    by dewey
  • > I was frustrated with writing apps

    Oh my hod… This absolutely AI generated intro.

    by rckt
  • Awesome job, this looks fantastic, and has all of the UX gaps I wish existed in Bear and Obsidian. However, my 2 biggest pain points with those could use addressing, and I would happily pay a high one-time price and upgrade fees over the years if they could be solved: 1. My corporate laptop is locked down, so no apple app store installations. Could this be made into a brew-installable app and licensed another way? 2. Related - every corporate laptop I've had for the last 10 years prohibits app store and icloud storage. So Bear notes (which I subscribed to) can't sync. Obsidian has a sync service, but I don't trust it (would prefer apple or dropbox), but unfortunately the plugin ecosystem is messy and difficult. There is no reliable community-supported plugin for syncing with dropbox on mobile. If you could make syncing with dropbox possible on desktop and mobile, that would be the ultimate gift to the community.
    by jamesboehmer
  • The landing page feels very generic. I have seen this exact style on other vibe-coded pages, so you might want to spice it up a little.

    However, regarding the editor, I really like it at first glance. I wonder if it is possible to register a PWA as the default app for .md files with KDE...

    by arendtio
  • What on Earth is a “greco-roman Markdown editor” and if I’m not someone who writes RETVRN posts on X, the everything app, why is that a desirable attribute?
    by shadowfacts
  • I am a heavy Typora user and I really like it except when it starts to glitch with longer documents (> 5000 words). How is this different from Typora? To be clear, I think it is ok if it isn't, the world is big enough for multiple markdown editors :-)

    Also, what does the term "greco-roman" have anything to do with Markdown editors?

    by avilay
  • Good job on releasing something into world, that's never easy. That being said, I really find the landing page off-putting, with all the regular signs of having been vibe coded. It's just a red flag. The actual editor is actually decent, even if the design is super generic and also seems like it was "enhanced" with Claude code.
    by flagdaaallm
  • "Your notes are a folder Plain Markdown on your own disk — open it anywhere, back it up, walk away with it."

    Maybe I misunderstand, but the Notes folder isn't really usable from another app as is. There are no folders and all the md files have machine generated names. It appears you can export the data to get the actual structure, but that, of course, requires the app.

    Something like Obsidian (or Typora mentioned below) can just be pointed at a folder and use it as is. Makes using multiple editors simple. Here, for example, there doesn't seem to be a way to use this data on linux.

    Do I understand all of this correctly?

    Thank you!

    by mrwetsnow

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