Beauty - Markdown editor for Mac, iOS, and web
Show HN: I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web
Beauty is a Markdown editor for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and web that stores your notes as plain text files on your own device. It offers a rich editing experience with live formatting, tables, formulas, diagrams, and code highlighting, all while keeping your data private and portable. Features include peer-to-peer collaboration, iCloud sync, and a focus on speed and reliability. No account required, and the editor remains free.
Your notes are a folder. Plain Markdown on your own disk — open it anywhere, back it up, walk away with it.
- mrwetsnow
"Your notes are a folder
Plain Markdown on your own disk — open it anywhere, back it up, walk away with it."
Maybe I misunderstand, but the Notes folder isn't really usable from another app as is. There are no folders and all the md files have machine generated names. It appears you can export the data to get the actual structure, but that, of course, requires the app.
Something like Obsidian (or Typora mentioned below) can just be pointed at a folder and use it as is. Makes using multiple editors simple. Here, for example, there doesn't seem to be a way to use this data on linux.
Do I understand all of this correctly?
Thank you!
- avilay
I am a heavy Typora user and I really like it except when it starts to glitch with longer documents (> 5000 words). How is this different from Typora? To be clear, I think it is ok if it isn't, the world is big enough for multiple markdown editors :-)
Also, what does the term "greco-roman" have anything to do with Markdown editors?
- jamesboehmer
Awesome job, this looks fantastic, and has all of the UX gaps I wish existed in Bear and Obsidian. However, my 2 biggest pain points with those could use addressing, and I would happily pay a high one-time price and upgrade fees over the years if they could be solved:
1. My corporate laptop is locked down, so no apple app store installations. Could this be made into a brew-installable app and licensed another way?
2. Related - every corporate laptop I've had for the last 10 years prohibits app store and icloud storage. So Bear notes (which I subscribed to) can't sync. Obsidian has a sync service, but I don't trust it (would prefer apple or dropbox), but unfortunately the plugin ecosystem is messy and difficult. There is no reliable community-supported plugin for syncing with dropbox on mobile. If you could make syncing with dropbox possible on desktop and mobile, that would be the ultimate gift to the community.
- smokel
This question is somewhat more general than this specific application, but how can an app guarantee that files will remain local, also in future updates of the app?
To put it simply, an automatic update of the app might start uploading the notes to a server. I don't think there is any security boundary in iOS, Android, or any other platform preventing this, right?
Other than that, congratulations on what seems to be a nice app!
- rckt
> I was frustrated with writing apps
Oh my hod… This absolutely AI generated intro.