<story><title>Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1</title><url>https://namiwang.github.io/2020/11/12/building-a-roam-like-networked-heavily-customized-realtime-editor-part-1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I remember setting out to write a Workflowy&amp;#x2F;Roam style outline viewed editor using prosemirror and it wasn’t as easy. Kudos to the author for building one.&lt;p&gt;Also, why is that all these note-taking apps see everything as a list item? As for me, most of my writings are loosely structured scattered across paragraphs, quotes and codeblocks. Why isn’t this mainstream? Why is “Everything is a list item” winning?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amardeep</author><text>You might like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;logseq.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;logseq.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. It works with either markdown or emacs org-mode syntax. It also syncs with github, so you could do local editing too.</text></comment>
<story><title>Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1</title><url>https://namiwang.github.io/2020/11/12/building-a-roam-like-networked-heavily-customized-realtime-editor-part-1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I remember setting out to write a Workflowy&amp;#x2F;Roam style outline viewed editor using prosemirror and it wasn’t as easy. Kudos to the author for building one.&lt;p&gt;Also, why is that all these note-taking apps see everything as a list item? As for me, most of my writings are loosely structured scattered across paragraphs, quotes and codeblocks. Why isn’t this mainstream? Why is “Everything is a list item” winning?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>input_sh</author><text>Look up Obsidian (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;obsidian.md&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;obsidian.md&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). Built by the team that built Dynalist. It&amp;#x27;s basically Markdown + wikilinks ([[like this]]), allowing you paragraphs, quotes, and codeblocks.&lt;p&gt;I found out that I end up using lists more often than not, but I like the flexibility it offers.</text></comment>