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I just switched to Android from iOs and missed a lot PlainText. It lets you edit any txt sitting in your dropbox (tasks.txt?), with a very smooth sync - you don
by pepicon 13y ago
I just switched to Android from iOs and missed a lot PlainText. It lets you edit any txt sitting in your dropbox (tasks.txt?), with a very smooth sync - you don't have to touch anything to save your edits or to get the latest version from the cloud. Simple and fast, my kind of tool.
I searched a lot and gave Google Keep a chance, but it has no API so I can't write on it through Alfred or Terminal. Also the sync is crazy as sometimes takes MINUTES to an updated file appear on my mobile. The dropbox app is not good for my needs too because it requires too many steps to see the updated file - when I start it and the file is already open I need to go back to the files list and get back to the file so it can refresh.
So I decided to build it.
My surprise was that dropbox supplies the entire code for an app with its API (Notes Example) that's very, very, very similar to PlainText! Two days using and nothing seems to be missing or not functioning well. So no coding, just compiling ;-)