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BoraxTheClean / adaptable-antelopes

Code Jam 2021 adaptable antelopes team
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How are Files Saved? #7

Closed BoraxTheClean closed 3 years ago

BoraxTheClean commented 3 years ago

Decision Point

We need to decide if we are going to save files as normal *.txt files that contain only unicode characters and are rendered as such with no additional formatting.

Alternatively we could choose to treat every file as markdown (or similar), implementing our own selection of the markdown interface and rendering.

Tradeoffs

The primary tradeoff at hand here is sacrificing compatibility with other text editors. If we only use *.txt files, notes can be opened and modified anywhere, but we sacrifice out of the box functionality in our application.

If we go the markdown route, we can have ✨ pretty ✨ notes in our editor, but those notes opened elsewhere, will not render with the same formatting and might look garbled.

BoraxTheClean commented 3 years ago

It sounds like we're most interested in saving things in our own format and not caring about cross compatibility of .txt files.

Figma prototype of markdown rendering: https://www.figma.com/proto/aS5y6DFK1tPV3IAdNKCk1m/ThoughtBox-Text-Rendering?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=2%3A2&viewport=489%2C327%2C0.7621527910232544&scaling=min-zoom

CupOfGeo commented 3 years ago

i think for now just focus on getting it working for regular txt files. Even if we make our own extension its still gonna be a text file but with markup in it that you wont see when opening thought the application.

CupOfGeo commented 3 years ago

i was thinking files would be saved to a folder in the repo why i think we should have a mock #17

BoraxTheClean commented 3 years ago

i was thinking files would be saved to a folder in the repo why i think we should have a mock #17

That sounds good. We just need to spec out exactly how we want it to work.