What is the crowd's opinion of Caret?

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Hi everyone 👋 ,

Nota is a pro writing app for macOS designed for local Markdown files.

https://nota.md/

Nota has been a long journey for us (me and @erusev). We've been working on it full-time for more than three years, and before that, we spent another three years working on Nota's predecessor, Caret.

Right now, Nota is in beta, and we'd like to invite more people to test it. We thought some people here might be interested.

Nota is free to use, but now and then, it'll prompt you to purchase a license. Licenses don't expire (no subscription).

Hi everyone,

I am one of the creators of Nota. I will answer questions if anyone has any.

Nota has been a long journey for us. We've been working on it full-time for more than three years, and before that, we spent another three years working on Nota's predecessor, Caret.

Nota is free to use, but now and then, it'll prompt you to purchase a license. Licenses don't expire (no subscription).

> I have since then moved on to Joplin (open source, cross platform, free) note taking app. The main draw is it's availability on all platforms.

Cross-platform is a big advantage. Our previous product Caret was cross-platform and we had a lot of users who worked on a combination of operating systems. You can join the Nota waitlist and we will send you an invite when we have versions for your operating systems.

Yes, it has been hard on us. We are from Bulgaria — the expenses there are low. We had some saved up money from our jobs. We earned a little bit of money from our previous product — Caret.

We first created Caret — we tried to validate our idea with it and saw there was an interest. Windows and Linux versions are coming indeed.

We actually use a lot of native macOS features to make Nota feel like a truly native app. This is why we will need some time to port the same functionality to other platforms.

Not quite sure why you're discounting "databases", but you can export any page(s) in notion to markdown or PDF. It's only markdown.

And not to be a bother, but which markdown? There isn't one specific flavor of markdown, every app uses a different one.

Here's the common list: https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/wiki/markdown-flavors

If you really don't want anything cloud based, I use caret for all my local editing and quick note taking.

https://caret.io/

It should have most of the features you're looking for.

>Put all together there isn't a single library that solves all these problems:
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>Used in a production application which is based on Caret - Markdown Editor for Mac / Windows and is in private beta.

To be fair, being used in a production application that is based on Caret and is in private beta is an odd problem for a third-party library to solve :-)

That's pretty cool. I think I remember seeing that blog post when it was published, but didn't give it a try. I must admit that I don't really have that much reason to write Markdown in Workflowy. I tend to use the Caret editor for most of my Markdown editing (mainly my blog posts). It's a shame that Workflowy doesn't do MD out of the box. Whilst that blog post does look cool - it also looks like a lot of faff to set up ;)