Related solutions

[jancborchardt]

To see what people would expect from the Text app, we should list some widely-used projects in the same space (mainly collaborative):

• Google Docs https://www.google.com/docs/about/
• Dropbox Paper https://www.dropbox.com/paper
• Etherpad https://etherpad.org
• HackMD https://hackmd.io
• Apple Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_(Apple)
• Evernote https://evernote.com
• Slite https://slite.com/

Working out of the box with prosemirror/markdown:

• Text formating bold/italic/underlined
• Code blocks
• Headlines
• Horizontal ruler
• Lists (ordered/unordered)
• Blockquote
• Links
• Images

Should be possible:

• Lists with checkboxes
• User mentions

Harder to accomplish (due to markdown format):

• Tables/Columns
• Text alignment/color/hightlight
• Dynamic content (videos/files)
• Inline comments

[juliusknorr]

I did have a look at most of them (except Apple Notes). While prosemirror would allow us to mirror most of their features, we are kind of limited with using markdown. Especially inline comments, text color/highlighting, text alignment, columns tables or custom content (like videos/files) are something that cannot be represented in markdown.

I've added a list of basic features to the OP, so we can further discuss what is needed and possible.

[juliusknorr]

Another common feature is showing the history of the document and the changes made in the individual steps. This is something we kind of already have with file versions, but we cannot have all editor steps from prosemirror in there, since the document might also be changed outside of the text app.

[juliusknorr]

@jancborchardt Let's close this, since this was more an overview to get an idea of other solutions. If individual features are missing, we should create separate tickets for that.