Hey everyone,
I wanted to share something that I’ve been working on for a while now - a fully WYSIWYG Markdown editor that supports everything from CommonMark and GFM, including tables. The app is called Breeze.
This is just a short teaser of the experience, but ultimately Breeze is capable of viewing and editing any valid Markdown. So if you have a README.md in your git repos or maybe even more documentation there that’s written in Markdown, Breeze should be able to handle it.
But it’s not only about Markdown in files as I wanted Breeze to provide smooth Markdown-like editing for general writing needs. So it provides a manage non-file based notes as well, with even more organization features like tagging and mentioning.
Of course it’s all pure Flutter. Some of you who have been around may remember me as the creator of the first rich text editor for Flutter (Zefyr), which I haven’t contributed to openly in a few years (because life), but Breeze is pretty much built on this foundation.
Let me know if you’d like to check it out. I will start sharing how to get your hands on the app pretty soon.
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Have you thought of punishing a new version of the rich text editor?
This still is an area where we could need some alternatives
Yes I did, I come back to this thought quite often actually.
Short answer is that there will be an open source update for Zefyr. When that will happen I would not be able to tell right now. Best case scenario would probably be in a year from now, but I don’t want to promise anything at this point.
Maintaining Zefyr in the open took a lot of effort, for now I’m enjoying the fact I don’t need to think twice on an API change or just hardcode a bunch of small things here and there, as I’m building things out.
I will need to clean all of this up before it’s ready for public eye. For now though my main focus is on Breeze.
Here is another sneak peek, something that was added recently - tables. What blows my mind still is that each cell is a tiny instance of Zefyr itself. Orchestrating all of this stuff is pretty challenging.
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I would love to give this a shot when it’s ready! I currently use Obsidian for all my notes, and I think this would be an excellent tool for some of the more advanced things I would normally need to pull in a ton of plugins to do.
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@hanskokx
Thanks, I just sent you a DM with a few questions. Hopefully we can get you set up soon.
I would definitely like to learn more about your use cases and what you are looking for. Especially since you are an active Obsidian user.
