What do you mean a bound file? It's a text file on disk. How is that bound?-wraith808
Their terminology, not mine.
My interpretation is that it's simply synchronising the database copy with the file copy. Doesn't impact editing the file using other programs.
On the basis of your video, my guess is that both versions do this in similar ways, although the details of the implementation vary. But know nothing of V2 since I started with V3.
The advantage of the method is that you have two copies of the file - one in the database, one as the file. Each copy can be worked on separately, but will be synchronised when WriteMonkey is active unless you turn the linking off.
-Dormouse
This is not how it's working in WM2. Check my post that I updated, i.e. from
http://www.writemonkey.com/features.phpSTANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT
For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey is fully UTF-8 compatible and will recognize virtually all international characters. Supports other encoding standards ‒ Unicode, ANSII …
I really don't like this direction, personally.
I find it interesting that plain text / markdown solutions like Zettlr keep the files in a database.
WriteMonkey is the same (though documents can be bound to a file).
When I look at WM3 it seems to have all the features required for a zettelkasten, but I've never seen it mentioned in that context. Though it's very rarely mentioned in lists of markdown editors either.
I'm noticing that different types of notes may have different and predictable structures. Vacillating between using templates and autotext insert.
-Dormouse
what do you mean by this? zettlr keeps the files just regular text files in whatever folder you like. you just open the file or folder. it has a database maybe for the program itself, but the files are all text files. the only thing the program seems to do is look for the ID somewhere in the filename or actual file itself. Is that what you are thinking too?
-superboyac
I think we're finally getting on the same page- a lot had to do with the fact that I'm using WM2. WM3 actually *does* store its files in a database located in (on Windows)
c:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Writemonkey 3\writemonkey3_sheets. It can sync with a local file, but it defaults to just storing everything there.
Which to me, is counterintuitive for a 'plain text' writing solution, and creates issues like this one:
https://github.com/w...onkey/wm3/issues/161Store locally, operate on that file. It doesn't matter where the file is, if you just store it as plain text.
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