Notion vs Traditional Editors

This week on AppStories, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them.

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Links and Show Notes

Text Editors Discussed

• Obsidian
  • Obsidian CLI
  • Obsidian Sync
• Drafts
  • Drafts Action Directory
  • Drafts MCP Server
• Notion
• Panda
• Bear
• Zed

Other Markdown and Plain Text Editors

• iA Writer
• Ulysses
• Typora
• MarkEdit
• Clearly Markdown
• Atlas
• Runestone
• FSNotes

File Formats

• TextBundle

AppStories+ Post-Show

Writing Workflow Tools

• Claude Code
• DropOver
• Pandoc

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