![]() I reached out to Christian Tietze earlier this year to review his other app, the markdown table generator, Table Flip. I was messing around with Deckset at the time, so I liked the idea of generating tables for presentations. As it happens I very rarely use Markdown tables for anything these days, so I can’t do Table Flip the justice it deserves. Having said that, if you should need Markdown tables regularly, it is exactly the tool you need. I had heard of The Archive before that exchange, but I wasn’t looking for yet another way to take notes. I have grown weary of consumer geeks mistaking the tool for the work, and even more weary of the bizarro apple fan world in which notes apps are somehow second only to task managers for the tech mode du jour. I had seen a few posts about The Archive, but I overlooked it after a casual glance. I figured aesthetically it wasn’t for me. Since then, between a realisation that my notes are an embarrassing shambles, and my curiosity with a growing enthusiasm among academic nerds for zettelkasten, I took another look. After downloading a trial and using it in earnest for about a week, I purchased it outright. It’s still early days, but The Archive is exactly what it needs to be. ![]() An antidote to lollipop iconography, cartoonish design, and the electron powered assault on native apps. A wonderfully native app built on plain text purism. A simple and elegant templating system makes the Archive customisable in the right way. ![]() It was trivial to craft a theme of my own, crimping colours and fonts from apps like iA Writer and Drafts - and toning down the coloured aspects of the interface that put me off to start with. ![]()
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