I think Typora has far and away the best <i>document editing</i> experience of all the note software out there, but I wonder if they have released a paid 1.0 too late. Document editing is only a part of maintaining a system of notes and there are so many competitors in this market compared to just a few years ago. And with Obsidian soon to release their live preview I don't know how competitive Typora with such a small feature set.<p>That said, I hope Typora does well. No matter what I'm using for notes, I always find myself preferring to use Typora's editor because its design is so clean and usable. Its a perfect example of "Do one thing well". This one-time, $15 purchase (instead of a never-ending subscription) also feels in line with what has been nothing but a great user experience in the several years I've used Typora.<p>Also, don't really care its closed source since all the files are local markdown. I also suspect the community of people only using open source note taking software isn't large enough to keep a developer sufficiently well paid to continue working on a project.
I have used Typora, it's alright — but it's definitely no Obsidian[^1] Typora is very limited in terms of plugins / customisability — although it's standard feature set might be enough<p>Obsidian is my new Emacs, it rules my life through some plugins I've written for myself, it can be a simple focus driven markdown editor like Typora if I need it to be, or a full knowledge suite like Notion and the likes of that all while managed by git.<p>I can't see a reason as to why I would ever use Typora over Obsidian, but I might not be the target user.<p>[^1]: <a href="https://obsidian.md" rel="nofollow">https://obsidian.md</a>
They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0].<p>Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all.<p>[0] <a href="https://support.typora.io/activation/" rel="nofollow">https://support.typora.io/activation/</a>
Never met a WYSIWYG markdown editor I liked since all efforts of making it WYSIWYG impacts text editing.<p>For all markdown docs now I've moved to just using VS Code with a live reload UI, the best DevUX I've found is VitePress [1] which immediately updates on save and shows the real thing, i.e. exactly how the docs will look including rendering any custom markdown-it extensions or Vue Components embedded in the page.<p>One free Markdown editor I have started using is Notable [2] which has become a worthy replacement to Notepad for manually managing TODO notes & sporadic text files in a neat simple UI with built-in search, pin working docs and custom labels for quick organization and retrieval. It works exactly how I wanted it to as a minimal UI for editing static .md files in a directory with all metadata stored in frontmatter that displays preview mode by default and an unobtrusive text mode when editing it.<p>[1] <a href="https://vitepress.vuejs.org" rel="nofollow">https://vitepress.vuejs.org</a><p>[2] <a href="https://notable.app" rel="nofollow">https://notable.app</a>
5 years later, started to think it would never bother!<p>$15 is a no brainer given how much I personally use it. Have recently found myself dipping into/staying in vscode more and more for version controlled markdown though.
Actually its a good business model and typora seems to look clean WYSIWYG editor. And making such things requires a lot of effort etc. It also seems to be cross platform so paying $15 for product which seems to be regularly updated doesn't seems bad. I think I will purchase it even though I don't use it just to encourage the author.<p>Thanks for no subscription etc gimmicks.
I love Typora. It turns out that I am a visual person and while I can _write_ Markdown easily, my writing flows better when I use a visual editor (but not MS Word. That program gives me writers' block).<p>This is apparently in contrast to most software developers, given the feedback here. Obsidian doesn't work for me for this reason.
To those comparing to other softwares: It is closer to [Multimarkdown](<a href="https://multimarkdown.com/" rel="nofollow">https://multimarkdown.com/</a>). As a pandoc GUI, it should be compared to [PanWriter](<a href="https://panwriter.com" rel="nofollow">https://panwriter.com</a>) which is open-source is grown from within the pandoc community, where you can contribute to make it better.<p>Edit: also try the VSCode extension [vscode-markdown-it-pandoc ](<a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ickc.vscode-markdown-it-pandoc" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ickc.vsc...</a>) which applies the markdownit extension in PanWriter to VSCode’s markdown extension.
I really love Typora - I've used it for years, and not always because of any MD support - it's just a beautiful app that works well. The cost is a no brainer given how many years I've already been using it.<p>I'll use this opportunity to say once again that I hate Markdown. We need to have a Web 2.0 style evolution for documents and document fragments using both HTML and Unicode. In 2021 it is absolutely insane that I can easily add an emoji with varying shades but I can't add basic formatting to text like bold or italic without resorting to a proprietary tricks, that normally get lost the first time you copy/paste.
Great software. I have been using it for a few years now (and even made a few themes for it). The WYSIWYG mode is really the best feature for me and what made me picked this editor. I don't like the "Live Preview" mode on most of the editors because it opens a new window or make the main window really large.<p>Something I like too (not sure if it exists somewhere else) is the ability to copy/paste an article (let's say from medium) directly in the WYSIWYG mode. You basically get your article just like it is being displayed on medium: h1 detected, paragraphs, bold etc. OOTB. Really nice.
Good for them! I’ve been a longtime fan. I still use Typora to edit most of my markdown - mostly because it’s pretty close to Gitlab’s rendering capabilities in terms of diagram support. I also love how lightweight it’s always felt; it opens super quickly on every machine I’ve used it on. Kudos to the devs!
Here's what's the fuss about: (quote from Typora, emphasis mine):<p><i>I cannot activate Typora
Error message “Please input a valid license code”</i><p>Please check if your license code is valid or not, license code are using formats like XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX with uppercase letters and numbers.<p>If you forgot your license code, please refer “How to retrieve my license code if I forgot it ?”.
Error message “Email address confirmation does not match”<p>Because once you used a license code, <i>same email address MUST be used for the same license code in future activations</i>. So you will need to input email address twice for confirmation. If those two input is not the same, this error will shown. So please check and correct your email address when met this error.<p><i>Error message “This license code has been used with a different email address.”</i><p>Because once you used a license code, same email address MUST be used for the same license code in future activations. This errors shows if the email address you use did not math the email address that that has been used when activating Typora with the license code at the first time.
Error message “Failed to access the license server. Please check your network or try gain later.”<p><i>Activation Typora requires network connection</i>
It seems like they are not available in all locations; my Russian Zip code is getting rejected. That's a shame cuz I literally just pressed the purchase button without reading the changelog, that's how much of a fan I am.
I like Typora but I am a vim tragic so I have found a 50/50 vertical split with vim in one window and a chrome window using <a href="https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim</a> to be my current favourite for editing. I also use <a href="https://github.com/mzlogin/vim-markdown-toc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mzlogin/vim-markdown-toc</a> which live updates a table of contents.<p>This plugin is great as it scrolls with you and live updates based on the content of the buffer, no need to save to reload. Normally I would not advocate for a vim / terminal solution as I find I'd normally rather a GUI, but these two plugins are so good that if you already have a good .vimrc then its pretty seamless to use this solution.
The release notes don't include release dates, but if the Twitter account registration date is to be trusted, Typora has been around since late 2014.<p>A one time 15$ purchase is a steal for all the value I got out of the beta versions over the years.<p>Even Sublime Text 3's monumentally long beta period appears brief when compared with Typora's.
For all the people saying you'd be happy to pay for this given its value to you: you're missing the point. The DRM is the problem, and paid software is perfectly capable of existing without DRM.
Typora is bad. It avoid the GPLv2+ from pandoc by writing their own HTML writer and the menu has additional export options that requires the user to install pandoc to be functional. It would have been much better if it is GPL and contribute back to pandoc in the first place (charging is not a problem, I’d bet people would like to pay support for pandoc GUI.)<p>Edit: Not to mention it confused users and so some of the users ask in the pandoc community for Typora support.
I've been using Typora for years and always appreciated the simplicity of use. In the case where I'm writing prose I want the tool to stay out of my way and provide just enough value to be pleasureful.<p>I've gladly paid the one time fee and plan to continue using it over Obsidian and Roam which I've tried in the past.
I love using Typora. My favorite feature is the mathjax support. It has replaced latex for me for grad school assignments and saves a lot of time.<p>Great to see that they won’t be going the subscription route.
people should also try <a href="https://marktext.app/" rel="nofollow">https://marktext.app/</a> , it's free and open source.
What does Typora have over ghostwriter, remarkable, zettlr, or apostrophe?<p>I mostly use Zim-Wiki but if I'm doing markdown these seem to provide everything Typora for free.
I guess this means goodbye Typora. The price of $15, the limitation of only 3 activations and the requirement to be connected to the internet to check the activation status is the deal breaker for me. Typora is not the only markdown editors and it's not the best in terms of features. Dealing with Typora activation is more hassle for me than switching to another markdown app.
Since the time I discovered Typora, I only use LibreOffice Writer or MS Word when I really need typesetting. Whenever I just need to write/save a text (and don't really need to specify fonts etc) I use Typora.<p>Besides all the other features it is particularly pleasing aesthetically and this way makes writing satisfying. I wish there were an Obsidian theme to mimic Typora look and feel.
Who is behind the app? Company? Person? Impossible to find anything than a "hi@" e-mail. The Github repository has no people-members, commiters have no real location...
> <i>Now ARM build for Windows / Linux is supported.</i><p>And there's an ARM Linux download?<p>Even if it's a bit of a laggy pain in the rear on low power ARM laptops, that's worth supporting!
We're asked, over and over again, by the guidelines and by moderator comments, not to editorialize titles like this. This is a particularly egregious example; the submission is simply the release notes for the 1.0 version of an editor called Typora, and this submission should be called "Typora 1.0".