Web-based markdown editor with no AI
26 points by wherewhy
26 points by wherewhy
Looks like a cool project. I’ve been wanting something like this.
It looks like there’s at least one AI generated image in the example sci fi story. The face and hands on the person gives it away. The other images have that AI “house style” as well.
Do these not fit in to your definition of “no AI”?
That's a fair critique and something I need to think about if I go to the lenghts of calling it 'no AI'. That label was meant as in there are no AI/LLM integrations, proactive suggestions (or intrusive smart feed algorithms) as seems to be almost a given with any writing app nowadays.
I don't think this is for me but this looks really slick, and performs well on my device.
I was surprised that you havent added a manifest to make it into a pwa. I think it would work really well as such.
It seems to have an odd interpretation of Markdown. I normally use the H1 underlined with === and H2 underlined with ---, since they look nicer in unrendered text than starting with # and ##. In this editor, the first is completely ignored, the second is turned into a horizontal rule under normal text, rather than making the line H2.
The editor also doesn't have a discoverable way of removing formatting. If you accidentally hit backspace at the start of the first line after a heading and then hit enter, the line inherits the heading. How do you remove it? Or, if you've made a H3 that should be H2, how do you reduce the heading level? Or even make text that was a bulleted list item into a normal paragraph?
TIL that underline style of headers is called "Setext" and the # ... headers are called "atx" (an Aaron Swartz invention from 2002).
Also Markdown lets you have headers like this:
# You can put a trailing hash just for the plain text aesthetics of it #
On light mode (at least with Firefox 140.5.0esr), the Sign in and Create account links in the top right corner seem to be using white text on a light grey background?
Also, seems like you have an AAAA record pointing to a link-local address.
I'm... not really sure what this has going for it versus something like Ellipsus...
I didn't know about Ellipsus. Seems to be aiming for slightly different use cases / users. They have different features and neither is a replacement of the other.
Oh! I didn't mean to be mean, just that from my perspective (A writer + potential user) they seemed to have roughly the same feature set, so I wasn't clear on what the distinguishing factors were or why I would pick this over something else x
edit: honestly I think something that would win me over wrt. this versus Ellipsus is that Ellipsus is nice for drafting and having a complete page of my work, but it doesn't do well with having a list of pages or stories I can refer someone to.
I see, yeah, Ellipsus seems to be perfect for book/story-writing with some specific features for such use cases. Kraa has some social features (and the ease of sharing) that we need to expand on, but the focus for now is high-quality markdown editor.