Hey HN - I'm the creator of Idyll, it is really cool to see it here! To respond to the other comment - I did post it a few months ago but it didn't get much traction then.<p>Happy to answer any questions about the project, or why you would want to use something like this.
Looks cool, would be a lot more interesting to me, if it included data io with postgres database functions and views.
I never use direct to table updates.
Being able to easily created a web front end to a database with a tool like yours, would be extremely useful to me and I would happily pay for such.
There are umpteen tools for creating schemas and managing databases - most like PgAdmin are pretty poor - I use Sublime Text. Unfortunately there are no RAD tools available for creating simple UI's. All my logic is in the db so I just need simple forms and display grids. I had a quick look at Envelope but complexity of setup and poor documentation put me off.
A somewhat similar in concept using attributes in markup is Tangle [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://worrydream.com/Tangle/" rel="nofollow">http://worrydream.com/Tangle/</a>
This looks very cool. Thinking of using it for my lecture notes. I like the math support and that it seems to support d3 albeit with a bit of extra work, am wondering how easy it would be to bulk convert from another format say. LaTeX using something like Pandoc to markdown and then to idyll? Would rather not cut and paste everything.