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@pandas thanks :) lemme know what you think.
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A board of notes rather than a text editor is a real distinction and I don't think most note apps respect it - they assume you want a document when what you want is a surface. Also, genuine respect for actually shipping after a year on it.
Cross-device is the wall everyone hits. I built a small markdown notes app too and eventually made peace with it by going local-first: autosave to the browser, no accounts, no sync, and treating that as a feature instead of a permanent todo. Cost me nothing to maintain since. Curious which way you end up going, because the subscription-free version of sync is genuinely hard.
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Hey guys :)
I'm here today to share what I've been doing for the best part of the last year.
I was confronted with a problem, I wanted to write my notes in markdown, and wanted something that I could use cross-device without having to enrol on a premium subscription. I also wanted dark theme and a different interface than most options out there. Another requirement I had at the time was that I didn't want simply to go to a website, I wanted a 'native' look and feel, and I didn't want a text editor, I wanted a board of notes.
So I've created Mdyna. I still haven't got the cross-device functionality up and running, but it's one of the next items in my bucket list, along with a PWA that can be used in mobile devices.
You can check it out here: https://mdyna.netlify.com/
Any feedback is welcome =)
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