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Comment by mutahhir | Hacker News Reader

One of the developers of Foldingtext here. Man, I was blown away to find Foldingtext on the front page of Hacker News today :)!

We're working hard behind the scenes to release the next major version in beta. It'll add a bunch of things that we feel will take FoldingText to the next level. Follow us on twitter (@foldingtext | https://twitter.com/foldingtext) if you're interested to hear about FoldingText development.

P.S. For the Vim enthusiasts, I'm really pushing to get vim support in the upcoming FoldingText beta ;)

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I’m really excited to hear it’s still under development. I’m a user and honestly thought it had been abandoned for TaskPaper. Looking forward to see what’s coming!

I write a lot of documentation in markdown. If you could make this product handle images and file management (so I can make multiple pages and link them like a wiki) you'd have a lifelong customer.

Vim support would certainly get me to purchase this. Are you planning on using nvim as a backend or are you going to roll your own emulation?

Emulation probably. Haven’t looked into nvim as a backend, will check it out.

I may be a bit late to this, but I used to have a kind of cool Textmate extension that would let me write comments (like this one) in Textmate. The extension wouldn't save to a local drive, but I thought it a nifty feature.

I bought FT ages ago, but if you add vim support i'll use it _much_ more.

How much of FoldingText was inspired by org-mode?

Jesse can speak to that, and while we did take a look at org-mode, I believe it was much later on. One of Jesse’s main inspirations was the Canon cat (ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/misc/jef_raskin/DTCJefRaskinDoc060.pdf) IIRC. Also, FoldingText was developed as the next generation platform which could be used to develop other text based applications, like TaskPaper by modifying the parser and other simple tweaks. So, in some ways it was the logical successor of TaskPaper.

How many paying customers does an app like this have? Seems cool but niche.

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