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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how does it handle exports to pdf, docx etc? Compatibility with the analog world is unfortunately so important for any adoption in businesses. Have to beat the incumbent at what they're doing while innovating for a viable game-theoretical solution
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Looks like good PDF export. What I really want is an app like this which treats a folder of Markdown files as its data store. Yes, they have features which preclude that, but I don’t care about them.
More and more people asking for that so it seems quite clear we should add that - since we are offline first from start it should’t be hard to do so
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Boy I’d love to see that! It does seem like it would introduce a great deal of complexity: many features would be unavailable in that context etc, and you’d have to communicate that reasonably. Still, I hope you figure it out!
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+ for more centralized knowledge bases in formats that can be edited in multiple different apps instead of individual databases. Then just need a good way of communicating edits / comments. Email notifications (e.g. Google Drive) suck, Git to cumbersome for most probably...
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don't see collaborative editing coming any time soon though... you can sync notes via Google Drive (including across multiple accounts by using the "Shift-Z" trick) but it creates conflicts when editing at the same time
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Wonder if CKEditor 5's Markdown capabilities would help. ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5 because Electron ✅ real-time collaboration ✅ export to pdf and docx ✅