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MarsEdit Landing Page

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MarsEdit

MarsEdit is a desktop blog editing application for the Mac. It provides an offline interface to most popular blogging systems. WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Movable Type, and many other systems are supported.

#Note Taking #Writing Tools #Markdown Editor 2 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
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CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
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- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions
Org mode Landing Page
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Org mode

Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
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- Open Source
Wow, no one has recommended Org mode (https://orgmode.org). I started using Emacs nearly 20 years ago specifically because of Org. I use Org for all my static sites, note taking, to-do lists and calendar. Org has a lightweight markup language that has far more features than Markdown (e.g., plain text spreadsheets!), but the markup isn't visible to the extent that Markdown is in most editors. Emacs with Org files behaves almost like a WYSIWYG editor. For example, links in Org files are clickable and their URLs aren't visible unless a cursor is hovered over them. I'm an obsessive note-taker with more than 6,000 Org files in my personal knowledge base and none of the dozens of other note-taking apps that I've evaluated comes even close to Emacs with Org. But to be fair, I create content on Linux only so support for mobile devices doesn't matter to me. By the way, I think it's hilarious that you mentioned Dreamweaver, dv35z, because I experimented with using Dreamweaver for note-taking in the 90s! I still have a few HTML files that include notes I took back then using Dreamweaver. Needless to say, I definitely prefer Emacs with Org!

#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions