Hi.

I just purchased this app, and I think it's pretty great in a lot of ways. Very close to what I've been looking for.

My first and main comment is about Categories and Tags. This feature is among the top one to three reasons I bought your app. Now, I'd really love to be able to do something with them as far as exporting them to an html list, or *something*. I'm not just tagging my files for my own amusement, I want to be able to publish the metadata somehow. Or perhaps you know of a tool that can handle that? I'm so lazy.

I haven't actually started using it just yet so I don't have much nuanced feedback, but I was a little puzzled about the itch distro angle. It's cool, for now, I think. I'm of the opinion that you're wasting time with the appimage and snap route, though. Very romantic, sure, but I get a  definite "has-been-marked-for-deletion" vibe from both. Something political is happening with the whole repo scene, though, so maybe that's just me.

Also, for some reason I was under the impression that this app had linking to other notes built in already. Don't see that, wish it did.

Hi, thanks for the feedback

Now, I’d really love to be able to do something with them as far as exporting them to an html list, or something. I’m not just tagging my files for my own amusement, I want to be able to publish the metadata somehow.

The purpose of supporting tags/categories in Deepdwn is more for organization within the editor, rather than a separate exportable item.

I don’t think there’s a general purpose thing that Deepdwn could do in that regard that would be useful to many people, without building a lot of features/configuration on top of it, but since the format used (markdown with yaml frontmatter) is reasonably standard (-ish, with caveats), I think somebody could build up tooling outside of Deepdwn to take that kind of thing on: It would parse your markdown files, gather tags and… do something with them, whatever it is that you need.

I’m of the opinion that you’re wasting time with the appimage and snap route

There are some issues with snap currently. It’s more like: If it works for you that’s great, but the appimage will continue to be supported, as it’s the one I use most currently.

I was under the impression that this app had linking to other notes built in

That is correct. You can:

• create markdown links to other documents, generally using relative paths.
• control-click those links to navigate to the linked document
• use the info panel at the bottom to see all documents linking to the current document.

Hope that helps!