LiquidText for MacOS

@gillianim Thank you so much for hunting us, and for the great feedback!

@nullbbbb Thanks, dark mode will come in time, but it's not the roadmap right now. Syncing is--set to come this fall!

@nullbbbb @craigtashman Please provide some details on the sync service, especially in regards to pricing. Thanks a lot.

@nullbbbb @boettges We're still figuring it out in terms of pricing, but it should be reasonable--it's designed as a mass market service. Besides that, it's a database sync, built on MS Azure database and blob storage. It's architected to support near basically real-time sync and collaboration (though collab will come probably early next year).

@nullbbbb @craigtashman Thank you for your reply. I see how this could be necessary and probably elegant for real-time sync and collaboration, but I personally don't need any of that. And judging by a lot of your user's comments pre-launch, I am by far not alone with this opinion. I would be much happier with a basic iCloud/Dropbox/GoogleDrive or WebDAV based sync option and maybe an auto-backup (with a threshold delay after editing has stopped) to PDF, just like Notability and Good Notes offer, as long as it is built-in and works without a forced subscription down the road. Honestly, I do understand the negative reviews the macOS version is getting right now. Currently you have to buy the pro version twice (or thrice, if you use Windows as well) just to find out that there is no basic sync and you manually have to migrate the files back and forth. Incremental updates can be achieved on all of those cloud providers. Even resolving sync conflicts is handled by a lot of apps successfully. Think of the aforementioned Notability and Good Notes, as well as 1Password, Soulver, DevonThink, the Affinity Suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher), even reference managers like Bookends or Papers 3 do this. The requirement of being able to edit the same LiquidText "document" on iPadOS, as well as on macOS (and Windows) simultaneously and be able to see edits being reflected in real-time to all platforms is a self-imposed requirement. No doubt, it would be nice to have, but it is by far not mission-critical, like the basic and expected sync is. Charging again for what is seemingly a Catalyst wrapper for the iPad version, with all of Catalyst downsides, such as font scaling, laggy performance, non-native look and feel) might be adding to that negative notion amongst otherwise loyal long-term users, who were awaiting the long promised macOS version and now got disappointed. Please don't become the next Fantastical.

@nullbbbb @boettges Thank you for your feedback here, we're definitely listening and considering it. As for the sync, our bigger vision for sync is to let your documents stay where they are (iCloud/Dropbox/etc.) and only have your LT metadata (workspace, links, etc.) live in our service. Would that be more reasonable for you? As for Catalyst, gosh, I hope we did more than a wrapper! Seriously, it was months of work, and has considerable maintenance costs, new UX interactions, etc. What parts of the experience are lacking? We want to make it excellent!

@usethetics Thanks a lot, but it probably won't be possible--we built on Catalyst, and it wasn't stable enough before Catalina.

@lagvin We have a lot of people using it for that--you can make excerpt without OCR just by selecting a rectangular area of interest. We do plan to add OCR--it's in Apple's SDKs now so it's just a matter of coding it.

@tyler_wince Thank you, it means a lot to hear that!

@bbbrooklyn Thank you, it's great to hear that!