Small nitpicky feedback: Your keyboard shortcuts say to use cmd + 1/2/3 to switch files. In Safari, that will load the first/second/third bookmark. The correct shortcut for Safari is ctrl + 1/2/3
I like 5iler a whole lot and I second adestefan's advice. I use a Linux system and don't have cmd keys. I'm wondering if, since some browsers (at least Chrome + Safari) use cmd+1/2/3 to switch tabs, if maybe replacing cmd with ctrl would be easier for everyone involved?
I was a bit obtuse in my original comment. Ctrl does work fine. I then tried Alt since that's in the position of the Cmd key, but that didn't work (which is a good thing because then it doesn't eat the browser's tab switch keys.)
I'm probably in the minority, but I would vote against markdown support. There are tons of minimalist markdown editors out there (have a look in the Mac app store for starters). At least make it switch-offable.
I'd vote against list automation too, because it changes the way the cursor and keyboard behave.
URL detection would be nice though, since it only affects the visual display and mouse behavior.
I'd also vote for a constant-width font option. Preferably Consolas or one of its knock-offs.
It would be nice if the line number, column number, and number of characters in the buffer were reported in one of the corners.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. I definitely plan on adding an off switch for Markdown, and will only be going through implementation if it doesn't impact speed/usability in a noticeable way. The plan is to make it a minimal implementation (i.e. keyboard shortcuts only) and barely something you would notice you had.
The reason I'd like to add it is because having switched over from TextEdit and Evernote, the one thing I miss are the Cmd+B,I,Us etc.
Have you thought about a subtle markdown support like a syntax highlighter? Vim does this for example. Bold things get displayed bold with there stars, headings get bold and colored (red in my case). It allows to read the markdown source and have the effect of formatting at the same time.
1) I'd like the titles to be Markdown-friendly headings instead of C comments, personally.
2) I'm not sure if this is within scope - maybe this is just something to do on my own in Dropbox - but it would be neat if there were an 'archive' button. Let's say I'm done with one of my files and I want to clear it out. Push the button, and that file would be moved to archived/DATETIME.txt or something like that, and cleared.
1) I'm working on implementing Markdown and will be using friendly headings once we sort that out.
2) I love this idea! In fact, it's been on my wishlist for some time now -- I plan on shipping it this week. I've been calling it "Snapshot Backup", but I think "Archive" is a much better word for it. Thank you :)
Great job! Like the concept. But here's another nitpick.
I see when you activate a file, the animation first shrinks the file a bit and then expands it out. Is it possible to remove the shrinking? It makes the app "feel" a bit jerky. I think the reason is when you shrink the activating file, all other files expand by a bit. This causes the whole screen shifting a bit, leading to a somewhat jarring experience for a split second.
If you have time down the road you could think of implementing one feature that every modern text editor for some reason lacks: autocorrect. TextEdit on Mac has some form of autocorrect but mostly sucks, I don't know why in 2014 we're still using the backspace but I feel it's time to move on.
isn't the same auto-correct system in TextEdit.app available by default in any cocoa text-fied on OS X? And if you think that system 'mostly sucks', perhaps it is because you are vastly underestimating what a difficult feature it is to implement?
Cool idea, not sure I like how the web app hijacks Command+N keys though (I use these often to switch between browser tabs). Lately I've been using a similar ~5 categories, and just emailing things to myself. I put the "tag" in the subject line have gmail filter them into labels.
Out of curiosity, which browser are you using? As far as I'm aware, I didn't build in any Cmd+N hijacking into the app (I did do Cmd+S for syncing/saving though, and Cmd+1,2,3,4,5 for switching between files -- is that what you mean?).
Yea, he means Cmd + Number I believe. In Chrome Cmd + 1 goes to the first tab, Cmd + 2 to the second and so on. So it can be somewhat annoying for someone who frequently uses those shortcuts to change tab.
I really like this, especially that it handles the tab key properly. I find it frustrating that it hijacks ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab as well though. I use those to switch browser tabs. I'm on Linux + Firefox.
This may be a known issue: it has to do with the fact that whenever Dropbox syncs, the undo state is reset. If you haven't setup Dropbox sync and have been experiencing this, let me know.
Yeah I actually haven't synced Dropbox, though I can't seem to reproduce this on a consistent basis. Huge fan of this though, definitely going to be something I use on a consistent basis.
Probably not, but I agree that it's worth mentioning.
It doesn't follow any common verbalization of the '5' character. It's also at the front of the word, so you have no clues to start you off on the right path. Even when you know how to say it you still want to say "five" when you read it. I would give the name a very low usability/accessibility score, and frankly it pushes me towards not using the product ("yeah I use this thing called filer - if you want to check it out it's actually spelled with a number five, and then 'iler' - yeah I don't get it either"). If we're going with the 5 theme I would have preferred 5note or 5notes.
Small nitpicky feedback: Your keyboard shortcuts say to use cmd + 1/2/3 to switch files. In Safari, that will load the first/second/third bookmark. The correct shortcut for Safari is ctrl + 1/2/3