I think you should disclose that it is freemium and not FREE. Typora is a one-time buy of $15; the app here, IF, is $3 /mo.

Personally, I have gone through so many productivity note-taking apps that mine are now plain-texts[1] with a tool that can read them. Of course, the texts are spiced with a tad of Markdown for readability and for the tools to make it easier on the eye. Right now, I'm with Obsidian.[2] However, I can move to any tool that does not chew up my content but just does its thang on top of it.

I also use iA Writer[3] a lot when picking out just a single file to focus on.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/

2. https://obsidian.md

3. https://ia.net/writer

I think it could be useful to read: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2016/mentalhealtherror_an_ex...

I don't see how this is an alternative to Typora. To Notion, perhaps, but not Typora.

I'm puzzled why this is headlined as an alternative to Typora.

I'm a happy, paying Typora (on macOS) customer. Looking at the linked page, I would never have guessed that IF is at all a Typora competitor.

I love Typora because it is a great, flexible WYSIWYG-ish Markdown editor (at least for me), and that is how it bills itself: “A minimal Markdown editor and reader.”

The linked page about IF doesn't mention Markdown at all… but it does mention things like “todo” and “pomo” and “schedule”. What do those have to do with editing Markdown?

The "doc" page starts off with about 800 words of philosophy. At first I thought it was AI generated, but it's too strange and rambling.

https://if.openages.com/doc

Excerpt:

> In the process of biological evolution, gene mutation is the main source of biological evolution, and the "mutation connection" of neurons is the main source of promoting the "thinking evolution" of the human brain. Two nerve cells that have never been connected suddenly "have a call" at a certain moment. Real life is repetitive, monotonous and boring. You can come into contact with new things and have new experiences. It is a low-probability event. Therefore, from the perspective of probability theory, this "sudden call" requires huge energy and is a low-probability event. It must have unique value.

The German translation I got automatically reads like a fever dream. Grammatically it often makes no sense and even worse, some things are translated literally. Doc is now "Dok", but no one would ever shorten it like that. The da Vinci quote is shortened to one sentence, and now makes no sense at all.

I know translating is hard, but it's kind of unsettling here.

Your site doesn’t explain your product very well. I know about GTD but I literally haven’t heard of any of the other products listed in the page. The screenshots are tiny and hard to parse on mobile. The descriptions of each feature include many paragraphs of philosophy before getting to what it actually _does_. I suggest “bottom line up front” and a clearer description of the product that better appeals to people who haven’t tried alternatives before.

Nice web page but after reading through the landing page I could not say for certain what the actual product is. There is no text that describes it, it just reads

>GTD for professionals

What does this mean?

I’m not sure how this is an alternative to Typora, that seems misleading. Typora is a minimalist markdown editor, this is some sort of to-do app.

I'd like to clarify that, given the numerous features of IF, I chose to promote it as a free alternative to Typora to make it easier for people to understand what IF is and to further explore its other capabilities. If this has misled you in any way, I sincerely apologize.

For linux, I enjoy Apostrophe[^1]

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe

The website claims "Privacy First" but there's no end-to-end encryption (Obsidian has it, OmniFocus has it) and not any mention of server-side encryption either.

i love https://typora.io/ and use it daily.

Does it support .mdx?

Free as in beer only?