There are surprisingly few resources on designing and building good macOS Catalyst software. That's a shame, since for many business models it's likely the only viable path to a native desktop app. This new guide from is a great addition.
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Incidentally, is (roughly) a native Notion competitor—an extremely exciting prospect, even if it's still quite young!
Electron apps drive me just completely bonkers.
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craft is great! It’s a breath of fresh air on my laptop after using text editors like Notion which are often too laggy
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Wow this is a great resource thanks surfacing this Andy!
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Apple must first make Catalyst capable of generating good software before it can make resources describing how to do it.
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Indeed. It’s a much better situation on Big Sur; Mojave is in really rough shape.
Great article! I just made my first Catalyst app Humans Photo Editor and am still learning best practices.
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Even this fantastic app suffers from Catalyst bugs like "Delete" keystroke eating off more than one characters. Really hope Apple fix the many long existing bugs of Catalyst, for developers' and users' sake.
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MacOS 11 fixes that ;)
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What strikes me today is that the web version of Craft presents a page layout exactly like your digital garden of evergreen notes. It is so promising. :)
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I was under the impression is using to host his digital garden. Can anyone confirm this?
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