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Along the way I decided to use Markdown as the plain text format that would define the underlying outline structure. FoldingText was my attempt to generalize the outline mode/plain text UI into a platform that other's could extend. But TaskPaper's underlying outliner model with a text UI seemed like it would be good a many other things. I wanted it to stay 'Plain text todo lists'. I didn't want to keep bolting features onto TaskPaper. After a few years the end result is that TaskPaper is an outliner data model presented/edited through a plain text editor.Ħ. But over time I wanted a better solution for handling large complex todo lists and so started building in outlining and filtering into the app. The original versions were just a little syntax highliting built into TextEdit. I created TaskPaper as a simple text alternative to OmniFocus. Lots of chrome surrounding a simple list of tasks. At the time 2005/2006 'Getting Things Done' apps were becoming popular, but they were pretty complicated. Many people saw WriteRoom as a MS Word alternative, even though it was much, much, simpler.ĥ. This lead me to the conclusion that there's a market and need for simple text based alternatives to 'major' apps. so yeah for that! :) This quickly sold better then my notebook program which had at that point I'd put years of work into.Ĥ.

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It originated the term 'Distraction free writing'. that it could zoom into a nice fullscreen mode. WriteRoom was a very basic text editor with one feature. Was a popular feature, but Ulysses was a big app with lots of other features that I didn't really want. Around this time added 'full screen mode' to their app. After a few years I was making my living selling this app, but I would still tend to go back to keeping my notes on desktop in TextEdit.ģ.

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Database of text files with a full text index for searching. Similar concept to Evernote (but a few years before I think). I gave up on ZUI for notes and decided instead to build Hog Bay Notebook, a Mac app for notes. Great fun but I always ended up using plain text files on my desktop instead of fancy ZUI app.Ģ. I liked to take notes and tried/build various ZUI notes apps. For me this was a super cool project to work on. Out of college I got to work on the Jazz ZUI (Zooming User Interface) toolkit and then build it's successor Piccolo.

I see a number of FoldingText history questions. Mutahhir has since taken the project over while I continue to work on TaskPaper and WriteRoom. I am original designer/creator of FoldingText.

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