It is real-time editing! We leverage web-sockets to sync across multiple logged-in sessions. But as of today it does not support multiple users collaborating on the same document.
whenever i see a free to use cloud service like this i think either 1:
- they won't be able to afford to run it much longer and it'll shut down with apologies about being a hobby project that got out of hand
or
- they start charging more for it than i'd like to spend once i become reliant on it
don't see any links to any source code... so doesn't seem to be something i can host myself... i typically try to avoid investing in services that i don't have some kind of guarantee with either way (that i'm paying to keep it running, or that i can fork it or host it myself when the hobbyist gets bored)
why should i invest the time in using your product?
Right now we don't have support for a local storage mechanism or self-hosting. We are extremely keen on privacy and are very open to working towards either of those two options.
1. Doesn't seem like there's support for latex-style math? (Or, at least couldn't find it in the documentation and putting an equation between $$ doesn't seem to work). Is this planned?
I actually run an app that does support mathematical documentation. I initially created it for mathematical publishing but didnt see enough interest so marketed instead as a generic document publishing app.
1. Currently there isn't support, but not opposed if there is a need.
2. Also, there isn't a way to export (or self host) as of now.
Just some background - We originally built this out as a standalone desktop app (~4 years ago) and then re-worked it for the web around the same time. We were planning to eventually rewrite the desktop app for just that reason - to have the offline syncing and cleaner export UX.
I didn't like Obsidian's TeX support very much. Primarily because it is very difficult to get macros working (especially across files). There are some plugins that try to do it but when I tried they didn't work very well. And anyway the features I'm interested in are sharing, collaborative editing, and having a good way to present things that are typed up.
Lowercase really shines when you want to take notes free-form and then be able to share those notes out into the world. You can easily make a note public & even cooler than that you can turn a lowercase note into a presentation with just a few clicks.
REQUEST: Please add an option for a monospace/code font. I see that <pre><code>...</code></pre> works very well (good monospace block style), but I have to inspect and edit the source.
Folks with technical experience but not necessarily web devs. When you want more out of Google Docs, Notes, etc. but don't want to invest the time in building it yourself. Or, that's not your skillset.
- Syntax highlighting
- "one off" Public pages
- Slide presentations
- embedding task lists with dates
Also, was a pandemic project...so ppl were just using tech and sharing in different ways than they had been.
I really expected this to be behind a registration or survey form but no - just a straight link to a dmg no questions asked, can't believe it's Microsoft.
There was an app that did something related to this called facewash (renamed to simplewash) https://www.facebook.com/simplewash/, but it seems to since have been shut down. May be worth it to shoot them a message
