I’ve been searching for a lightweight notetaking app that organizes things as a hierarchy of RTF files. After trying a thousand different things (which usually adhere to the new dogma of markdown), I keep coming back to Scrivener as the answer to my problem.
But I want to keep using Scrivener for my major writing projects, not lightweight notetaking.
I wish I could run a second copy of Scrivener under a different name, just to keep the two contexts separate.
Or, would you consider creating a lightweight reduced version of Scrivener (maybe called Scribe or something) that would be this RTF-based notetaking app for Mac and iOS? We would not need all the bells and whistles. No exporting to ebook. Just help us jot down our thoughts quickly, capture URLs, images, pdfs, screenshots, lists, tabular data, etc. I want to store my life’s important tidbits somewhere and I would like there to be straight file-based searchable RTF access to it.
I don’t want just text. I don’t want markdown. I want to use all the fonts I have. RTF lets me. You built Scrivener on RTF. This is the answer.
CakeText would be a nice name for it. We add layers and layers of our PKM and life tidbits to it, like a cake.
Very interesting.
“I’d long been toying with the idea of an alternative, more minimal take on Scrivener.
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So this isn’t Scrivener; it contains only a fraction of Scrivener’s features, and that fraction often works differently. It’s a scalpel to Scrivener’s Swiss army knife. And because it uses a different text system (and thus a different file format) and steers its own course, this isn’t a “Scrivener Lite”, either. It is its own thing. (Its own thing with iCloud sync.)”
If @KB is able to make this local-first and RTF based with optional iCloud sync, this would fit the bill.
Otherwise, it reminds me of Ulysses, which isn’t to say it shouldn’t be explored.
