Fsnotes: Documentation: What is Container - TextBundle?

[quinncomendant]

I noticed FSNotes v3 has a new preferences setting for Container: TextBundle | None. As an end user, why would I choose one format over the other?

I see selecting FSNotes Help from the Help menu just opens the github issues page. Are there plans to create a documentation page? Github wiki would be just great.

[gingerbeardman]

This should be documented, I agree.

It's a bundle (think of it like a special folder that looks like a single file) that contains plain text and any referenced media.

Read more http://textbundle.org/

[quinncomendant]

Ok, I get the gist. A couple questions:

• Do TextBundle packages persist, or are they only used temporarily when sharing a document with another program?
• If they persist, where are they saved? If I use iCloud Drive for my notes, will TextBundles appear on my other devices?
• TextBundles look awesome. Why would anyone choose Container: None?

[gingerbeardman]

1. They persist.
2. Your notes folder. Yes with iCloud they'll appear on all your devices.
3. If you don't use images/media there's no real need to use textbundles. If you don't have apps that can work with them easily maybe you'd my choose to use textbundles.

Does that sound right @glushchenko

[quinncomendant]

Yep, TextBundles sure do appear on all devices via iCloud. It looks like this:

The TextBundle folder:

The TextBundle folder contents:

That's a view from inside iA Writer, which doesn't "support" TextBundles (although, of course it can open the *.textbundle/text.markdown file inside).

Unless a user only uses the supported apps they will want to select the Container: None option. If they don't, they'll end up with a bunch of folders instead of regular text files.

Does FSNotes default to Container: TextBundle when it is installed? Since this could violate the user's expectations of a "pure" text-file-only workflow (it will create folders instead of files), the default setting should probably be Container: None.

[glushchenko]

https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/wiki/Containers

[gingerbeardman]

Does FSNotes default to _Container: TextBundle_ when it is installed? Since this could violate the user's expectations of a "pure" text-file-only workflow (it will create folders instead of files), the default setting should probably be _Container: None_.

@glushchenko I see that TextBundle is now indeed default, an unannounced change. this is something I do not personally want for my notes (now I have to go back through recent notes and figure out how to convert them to plain .md files)

[sgoumaz]

It seems that v2.6.0 on iOS also defaults to using TextBundle, even though the 'default extension' setting is still 'md' in my case… that's a bug to me. And then note contents don't show on the MacOS app. (Please split into separate issue if needed.)