Hey, I quickly tried your editor and even when the writing experience is the most important thing, I have to admit it looks really lovely! I love the design and how it interacts. That is cool. Maybe you could add some more color options (not everyone likes the newish beige-toned interfaces). Cool that even flowcharts are supported. The only thing I miss in the block options would be a callout and the option to set a color for that callout. So far my first impressions :)

Amazing project and execution. Makes my IDE's quickly-bolted-on (3 hours) .md support look ridiculous in comparison. Installed as PWA. Thank you!

Yeah, how can Notes be so horrible? Makes me sad when I think about it.

For me the founder is always the most important in any project. It helps to understand all the rest.

the UI looks clean and slick. Nice work!

What if any other app starts uploading the files too, though?

You have the choice of not doing any automatic updates in iOS. I do it, partly because I want to read the release notes of every app I use, partly because if I like using an app I don’t have the designers to redesign my UI.

Can’t you just open a folder inside your Dropbox folders? Then it should just sync, right?

(That’s how I use zettlr, but with nextcloud instead of Dropbox.)

Thanks for these. I'll look into it! You can message hi [at] peres.pro with any feedback or report. There's a power user group as well if you'd like to try the betas

If an app has a menu option that makes a Finder window appear showing the relevant file/folder, I would expect that to be labelled “Show in Finder”.

Website appears to be vibe coded, with some content overflowing off the screen on mobile with no ability scroll horizontally.

There are a few different types of Markdown apps. Many of them work like Notational Velocity/nvAlt/Obsidian where it's a folder of plain text files, you type in Markdown primarily, and the editor just applies some formatting after the fact, akin to syntax highlighting. IMO its much nicer than looking at just the Markdown, but it also has the advantage of remaining 100% portable text.

If there is a nice neovim plugin for rendering markdown as you type it, I would love to hear about it.

Funnily enough, this is the only sentence written by myself. Other parts of the post were written with the help of AI.

Maybe I spent so much time using AI that I started to write like them?

100% way too long. Such a shame as it looks like a nice product but detracts from credibility.

Beauty is available on web at https://app.markdown.beauty. It has all the features, excluding things that rely on Apple APIs: search using embeddings and icloud sync. The library is stored using IndexDB and you can download the library at any time.

Not ideal, I know, but maybe it gives you a great typing UX at least

Someone has to do it

I, too, am wondering what a "Greco-Roman" editor means, and likewise why the choice of typeface and colour scheme that is the same thing I have to endure when I go to the Trump Accounts website.

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?

"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!

I wanted to make an app that the world doesn't need another of, because that's my usual day-to-day.

This is another game, my focus is to sweat the details and try new approaches/new tech. I also think most editors don't really do a good job so wanted to build something for myself.

Lastly I wanted to build something silly, there isn't a lot of software that looks like Winamp, this is my small ode to those days.

AI slop landing page == not downloading or caring. I would much rather a much simpler and more minimal landing page designed by you with some intention, even if it looks less "professional"

looks good

I don't immediately see a way to put an outline based on heading levels in the sidebar. For me, that's an absolute requirement, so I'll be sticking with Typora, at least for now...

The ability to change font styles from the keyboarding using / is a nice touch, I wish Apple notes feature had that versus having to memorize a ton of keyboard shortcuts to change different styles.

ok … I’ll play ball. I really like your idea and the demo is very convincing. I already use Apple Notes as my daily driver over Obsidian, Bear and the others because I do not want to pay $$ per month just to sync notes between iPhone and Mac. However, I would much prefer a native md option over whatever proprietary rtf stuff that Notes does. So I am your perfect target user.

Show me a well designed md centric notes taker that uses my own drive, syncs between Apple devices, has no subscription and I am listening.

So I scrolled (and scrolled) through your website to find the pricing section, and finally unearthed your very cryptic note about paying for the power option that allows me to sync. This raises three red flags to me:

  1. it is hidden and is similar to typical trick clauses that many software products vendors play … you reserve the right to hold back a key feature and make it payable

  2. it is cryptic - as you say your product is free on my devices and on web and it is shareable … maybe I can use dropbox to sync, but maybe not … now I have to invest effort to test the limits

  3. nothing prevents you from drawing the line quite high for now, but then playing more and more stuff behind your paywall over time, forgive me but (1) has already lowered my trust in you

Now - thank you for offering me a free subscription for one year … but I don’t want to strand a years’ worth of my notes behind a proprietary paywall. This tells me that (i) your intent is to take my money and (ii) you don’t understand my objection. So no thanks for the free puppy.

So here now, I am out. To get me in, you need to win back my trust. Not easy. But your product is very cool. So I make you a counter offer:

  1. make your product free for ever including synching across the Apple ecosystem to all personal users

  2. look at a product like BBEdit and adopt their freemium model where business users must pay a fair fee and it is enforced via a self declaration or maybe where folk want to collaborate with 3+ colleagues or something (I want you to make money, but I will not pay a subscription for device synching a text editor)

  3. open source your code so I can fork and build myself if you go under a bus

  4. make your policy clear and upfront (a pricing section with free vs paid comparison would be good)

i was very confused by this too. my guess is that it was half-formed stylistic sugar in the original prompt which resulted in a) the statue head graphic b) the word Maximus in the subscription product name. that said, i almost like this move of putting a non sequitur in the opening paragraph and never paying it off.

So… this is… a word processor?

Claude-isms like this is not what humans write and it makes my spidey sense tingle unnervingly:

Plain Markdown on your own disk, nothing to sign in to, and the whole dialect when you want it — five things worth knowing first, each argued in detail further down

Just to break it down:

"Plain Markdown on your own disk": What an odd way of saying it stores Markdown files on your computer. In this day and age, "Stores all your data locally" is an easy way say this.

"...nothing to sign in to": Reads so awkwardly, I think, because it declares that something that doesn't exist is a good thing. It's like advertising home delivery with "no store to go to". I would put "no account needed" or "no sign-up required".

"...and the whole dialect when you want it": The "when you want it" is so weird here. Why not say it supports all of Markdown?

"...five things worth knowing first, each argued in detail further down": There is something uniquely strange about this phrasing. Why not just say: "Here's five things you should know"? Or just drop it. It doesn't add anything.

Claude is terrible at writing copy. GPT is a bit better. At the moment, Gemini is the best one, I find.