iOS + Dropbox
As a new & quite late to the game tester I'm very much enjoying nvUltra on macOS & will more than likely replace the data I've been testing it with, with my entire note collection that currently sits in Bear & use this full time.
Around 50% of my note taking though happens on iOS, with some notes generated for me via shortcuts that I add data to later. Until the iOS app comes, can anyone recommend an iOS Markdown editor that plays well with Dropbox? Dropbox has been buggy at best for me with the files app & I'm struggling to find an app that hooks straight to the Dropbox API. Does anyone know of one in active development (ie that wont break when iOS 14 comes & be abandoned)?
Alas leaving Dropbox is not an option at this point. Thanks fellow testers & I'm looking forward to the app launching.
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Just as an FYI:
I have previously coded (multiple versions of) a sync engine for Dropbox. Dropbox, like seemingly every other "sync" service doesn't actually provide a sync API. It provides an upload/download API. Synchronization is up to you to reinvent. iOS solves this by allowing the app provided by services such as Dropbox to provide access to a folder, and then their app can handle making sure that the content is synchronized to "the cloud."
Unfortunately, none of the sync services I have tried support this feature (except iCloud of course). Resilio Sync claims to support this, but it doesn't work in my testing.
I don't want to write multiple sync engines for every service out there as part of nvUltra. Especially since this is the sort of thing that should be handled within the official app provided by the various sync providers (who make infinitely more money off of this than I do.)
That said, if the big companies fail to implement this basic functionality, I have considered taking my old code (which is currently Dropbox-centric) and could create my own file provider to iOS, which then handles using the native Dropbox API to handle synchronizing to the cloud.
1) I'm not sure I will do this.
2) This would be likely prioritized after nvUltra for macOS, MultiMarkdown Composer v5 for macOS, and nvUltra/Composer for iOS
3) If I do this, each 3rd party service would have to be added separately, and the ease of this would depend on the API they offer. This means it could take a fair amount of time to include a reasonable range of 3rd party services if that was the plan.
4) Composer for iOS already handles editing single files residing in, say, the Dropbox App. There is just not a way to support an entire folder as would be expected for nvUltra.
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Andrew King, I use the same set of notes in nvUltra on my Mac and in1Writer on my iPhone and iPad, if that's what you're looking for.
1Writer is very similar in spirit to nvUltra, at least for my purposes, and also makes some automation available from within the app, which I like as well (though I don't use it much).
That said, I almost never compose new notes in 1Writer. I use Drafts, and then have actions that turn the text into a note (with appropriate metadata) in my Dropbox notes folder. Then 1Writer accesses it there. When I refer to or edit existing notes, it's always from within 1Writer.
In the end, it isn't as clunky as it sounds. If I'm creating a note, I start in Drafts. If I'm not, I go to 1Writer.
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+1 to what theofrancis said. I also use 1Writer and Drafts, the only difference being that I do use 1Writer to compose things in markdown. Mostly on my iPad, but on my iPhone as well. I've tried a lot of different things and, at least for markdown, I like 1Writer best.
If you use iCloud you can add whatever folder(s) you use in nvUltra without issues as well.
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1Writer was exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I checked many of the editors in iOS text editors list, but none of them had universal search (only filenames or text within the open file).
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