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TrixDevelopers and users who need a simple, effective rich text editor that integrates easily into web applications, and who require a no-frills tool for typical text formatting tasks. It's particularly well-suited for small to medium-sized web projects where simplicity and functionality are top priorities.
Based on our record, Bear should be more popular than Trix. It has been mentiond 58 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I can recommend Bear (https://bear.app) been using for ~6 years or more. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago
Bear is what you get when someone builds a notes app that respects developers. It's clean, fast, supports full Markdown, and syncs across devices. Unlike Obsidian, it doesn't require you to set up a vault structure and plugin ecosystem before you can write a single note. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
I kept track of bugs and ideas in Bear which, if you're in the Apple ecosystem, I highly recommend. When I stumbled on a good idea for a component that might be fun to build (sup, flip card), I'd write it down. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago
It's odd that this blogging system is using a name also in use by a writing tool: https://bear.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
I got this confused with the Bear note-taking app for a minute (https://bear.app/), since it's in a closely adjacent domain and even has similar value statements. Unfortunate naming collision. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Itโs actually the opposite, WYSIWYG is better than ever. You just have to seek out the tooling because WYSIWYG isnโt something that everyone benefits from. HyperCard was cool but it had big limitations that made its demise inevitable. It was most useful for prototyping because of those limitations. Its inability to use files over a network is a big limiter. Basically everything HyperCard could do is something the... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
I love how Trix [0] and (I think) ProseMirror [1] work in that regard: it does use contenteditable, but every edit you make is applied to an internal model instead, then the editor state is updated back from the model. [0]: https://trix-editor.org/ [1]: https://prosemirror.net/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
๐ก If you're using the Trix editor, I also show you how to test your view components with a nice helper inspired by Will Olson's article Testing the Trix Editor with Capybara and MiniTest. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
Trix is simple and easy to use for basic writing like a blog. Itโs what Basecamp and HEY both use (it was built by 37signals and is the default in Rails) https://trix-editor.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Trix was the winner. It was easy to style, is well maintained, has documentation for embedding it into a form, is easy to create custom keyboard shortcuts for, has great examples on how to save/load content or modify it with javascript. Source: over 2 years ago
Obsidian.md - A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Quill - Powerful, API-driven rich text editor
Simplenote - The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
Cleartext - A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words
Evernote - Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace. Evernote is the place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.
MediumEditor - MediumEditor is a simple inline editor toolbar built with JavaScript.