> On 01 May 15, at 14:49, Rick Yentzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great thread. I've been trying to simplify my workflow with text docs also. > But I also want to sync it so I can view these files on iDevices when needed.
Yep, syncing is the whole point of all these notes apps, and the main a advantage over a Finder/folder-based notes system. (You can also sync Finder folders with the help of iOS apps like Documents (Readdle) or GoodReader, but this is not maintenance-free.) > Right now I'm trying out Simplenote for iPhone and iPad. Be careful, this thing has (or at least: had) sync problems from time to time. I also used it for quite some years: It was fine most of the time, but every now and then notes didn’t sync or reverted back to older versions. The problem is you won’t notice that until you search for something or want to access an older note. Finally I gave up because I’ve lost confidence. Currently, for the bulk of my miscellaneous notes, I’m back to Apple’s Notes.app ;-) It syncs reliably in my experience, basically the notes are emails on the imap server (plus some new iCloud/Drive mechanics recently…). It accepts also attachments (images or whatever) and since iOS 8 (or 7?) these also get synced to iDevices. So, you can for example, attach an iThoughts document and access it with iThoughts on the iPad via the Notes.app. Of, course, Notes.app is not plaintext nor MD-aware. If I had *only* text/MD files I’d store them in a DropBox folder and access them on iOS with Nebulous or any other of the plethora of iOS text/MD apps. On OSX Spotlight does a very good job for retrieving MD/text snippets systemwide, so I don’t see any major need for a dedicated text notes management system on the OSX side. Task or project related small plaintext stuff I’m syncing also via my task manager (currently 2do.app). > It doesn't preview md files but they are still readable. I used nValt for > several months but it crashed more than I was comfortable with. I think I'll > give BBEdit another shot for md and plain text files. 'Smacks self for not > putting them in a project' > > On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 8:36:45 AM UTC-4, Brian Christiansen wrote: > I know you said it wasn't a good fit for your project, but I'll just add that > I use BBEdit for this function. > > I keep journals to track all my projects at work, and I write in Markdown. I > made a Project named—wait for it—Project Journals, and for each project, > there's one running .md file. Each entry is delimited by a time stamp that's > a clipping. (I actually do that with LaunchBar, but there's no reason you > couldn't do it with BB's clippings and a keyboard shortcut. ) I tag each > entry with `@tag` And then I can use live find to skip around the file by > tags. I can use Multi-file finds to search across the Project. When I type > the `@` and a letter, auto-complete kicks in so my tags stay consistent. When > I get a new project, I make a fresh .md, and when a project is complete, I > move the corresponding.md to an archive folder within the Project. I can use > filters in the Find function to so I can search across live, archived or both > at the same time. > > It works great for me. It just requires establishing your own process. You're > welcome to steal mine—there I just open sourced it. ;-) > > If that doesn't work for you, I've heard many people love Day One for work > journals. I love it for the personal journal that I never update… it's > beautifully made. > -- Tom http://dflect.net -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
