Vandan Desai

Mandrill Grew Up - Mandrill now supports macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

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There’s a version of Mandrill that I thought was the final form. It was a reader. A beautiful one, I think open a Markdown file, see it rendered cleanly, pick your GitHub theme, move on with your day. Then it became an editor. Then it got folder support. Then GitHub integration. Each time, I thought: okay, that’s it. That’s the thing it needed to be. I was wrong every time. This release is the biggest one yet. Mandrill is now on iPhone and iPad. And across every platform: Mac, iPhone, iPad.

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There’s a version of Mandrill that I thought was the final form. It was a reader. A beautiful one, I think open a Markdown file, see it rendered cleanly, pick your GitHub theme, move on with your day. Then it became an editor. Then it got folder support. Then GitHub integration. Each time, I thought: okay, that’s it. That’s the thing it needed to be. I was wrong every time. This release is the biggest one yet. Mandrill is now on iPhone and iPad. And across every platform: Mac, iPhone, iPad; it can now create files, move them, and rename them. Not just read them. Not just edit them. Actually manage them. It took me a while to admit that this was what the app needed. I kept telling myself that file management was someone else’s job. That was what Finder was for, or the Files app, or the terminal. Mandrill was supposed to stay lean and focused. But then I’d open a folder in Mandrill, start writing, realize I needed a new file, and flip to Finder to create it. Or I’d want to move a note into a subfolder and do the same shuffle. Every time, a small break in concentration. Every time, a reminder that the app wasn’t quite finished. So I finished it.