FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users

Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users by chipotle_coyote on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:08AM (#15929950)

FoldingText isn't really a "minimalistic live Markdown focus mode" app, it's a productivity app, closer to something like Emacs' org-mode. I have no doubt that org-mode is more powerful, if you're already living in Emacs. (I can use Emacs, but I just can't get into it as a way of life.)

But FT isn't really being actively developed anymore, AFAICT. The developer switched from working on TaskPaper to FoldingText and then switched back to TaskPaper. Before TaskPaper he was working on WriteRoom, which was a minimal Markdown app, and sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn't. TaskPaper is pretty neat, but when push comes to shove it could be implemented as an extension/package for nearly any competent text editor. (And in fact has for several, including Atom. Folding Text also existed as a plugin for Atom at one point.)

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Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users by mutahhir on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:33AM (#15930241)

We're still working on FoldingText :)! However, a lot of that has been behind the scenes as we're working on a new version from the ground up. We're hoping to start private beta in a couple of months.

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Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users by rem1313 on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:15AM (#15930577)

Would that be a paid upgrade? I like the idea of FoldingText, but paying twice would be a bummer :)

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Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users by mutahhir on Friday December 15, 2017 @05:57AM (#15930970)

It will be a paid upgrade. I'm sure we can work out how to migrate our customers who have bought FoldingText recently, but, honestly, we still have to figure out these aspects. Right now, we're heads-down on getting the beta out :).

Also, while FT is in beta it will have a significant discount.

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