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by TeMPOraL 3891 days ago
> Who would ever want just the text aspect of their notes synchronized across devices, but not their photos that they took of powerpoint slides, their data tables, their diagrams, their emails, etc.?

That's one thing I don't get. Dropbox could have made a decent markdown or (please, pretty please) org-mode editor and would have blown everyone out the water. Editor over Dropbox is a perfect thing - unlike every other butt solution out there, including Google Drive, it doesn't limit you to your butt provider. Files on Dropbox are still your files, in your own filesystem, and you can do whatever the fuck you want with them. A simple editor for people who don't like (or don't want to, on a particular device) playing with file juggling, and it would be a perfect note taking solution.

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I've actually asked Dropbox to do exactly this, but no dice. Their mobile app allows you to edit text files fairly easily, but no web client.

It would be amazing if they would just let me use this on their website:

http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/streamlinejs/vim.html