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by isolatedsystem 242 days ago
Whoa. This looks very interesting. Does it support maths? Are the images stored locally? Can fonts and typography be changed? How does it differ from your open-source version which looks similar?
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Thanks!

- Not yet, but adding support for Math blocks is planned.

- Yes, images are stored locally in the ~/user/.config/Awesomeness/attachments folder

- Yes, but only for pre-defined fonts. This is by design - I wanted the app to be opinionatingly simple. But since I got many requests for that, I'm gonna add an option in the settings for that.

- My FOSS version uses a simple plaintext editor (QTextEdit) with some Markdown highlighting. Daino Notes uses a block editor (a la Notion) I wrote from scratch[1] - this allows me to add complex blocks *in the middle of the documents* - so things like Kanban, Images - any custom component that I wish basically - so also math blocks, tables, etc in the future. It's also allows me to do nifty things like cool drag & drop[2] and the editor is even more performant than QTextEdit (especially on large texts).

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/blog/drag_and_drop_internal.mp4