![]() ![]() But I’m well aware of the issues raised here and certainly they would have to inform any consideration of making a purchase. (With the added benefit that text files mean no lock-in). I held off on buying FoldingText and for now I’m just free-riding on the Atom plugin while it’s in beta. ![]() Even Oakoutliner seemed incredibly promising, then just got abandoned, apparently.īut I have to say that Editorial is my current favorite, offering everything I liked about the others, and some intriguing new workflow functions. I’ve bought WriteRoom, Plaintext, taskpaper, and was also irritated when such promising beginnings seemed to fizzle out. Personally, I find this in extremely bad faith, and will think long and hard before ever buying another app from him.Ī reasonable rant, if such a thing is possible. It seems he is focusing his development efforts to benefit an ever narrower customer base, and forsaking those who have supported him with their dollars up to now. It’s nice if he wants to make FT work with Atom, but 90% of the people who’ve bought FT do not use Atom and never will. ![]() FoldingText did get an update a year ago, but since then nothing, and it is not like the software is without flaws. TaskPaper and WriteRoom have not been updated in three years. He dropped the iOS apps 15 months ago saying he was going to focus his efforts on TaskPaper, WriteRoom and FoldingText. HOWEVER, as someone who has purchased FoldingText and TaskPaper (as well as the iOS version of TaskPaper), that is, as a customer, I am very frustrated with his priorities. Let me start this small rant with this: Jesse Grosjean of Hogbay Software is entitled to run his business anyway he wants. But I’ve been playing with Haroopad, Smartdown, and Editorial, all excellent long form writing tools that allow me to edit the same files across platforms and Dropbox. I also had trouble CLOSING the program (Windows). No spell check, no word count, folding by level of indent, not heading. I tried this back in January, but was disappointed. And I think developers could go much further: one idea that occurs to me would be to create smart folders and/or filters to isolate particular lines within a text-based outline. But I do think there is a lot to be said for this particular category of outliner software: plugins for text editors. I have tested the plugin only minimally so far- I just wanted to share the info for others who might be interested. Looking for progress recently, I was, at first, disappointed to discover that more than a year had passed without updates to the Mac version, but then I was pleased to learn that a new version of FoldingText has been designed as a plugin for the Atom text editor:Ītom, incidentally, has just reached version 1.0: FoldingText has been discussed here before. ![]()
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