That is amazingly kind and generous of you and would be awesome! I don’t know how to do what you are describing. I too use iA Writer and of course Obsidian (and have used Byword in the past). Also, what is Emacs?
I can’t thank you enough, your kind offer is “way above and beyond!”
No problem: I’ll make it fairly basic and you can see if you want any more details from there. Visitors have just arrived, so it won’t be for a few hours, but I’ll try to get it done when they’re gone.
(Emacs is the most advanced text editing environment in existence. It’s been continuously developed for decades, and acolytes engage in vicious hand to hand combat with devotees of Vim in The Editor Wars over which is better. It’s utterly brilliant, but it’s utterly idiosyncratic and absorbing and infuriating and wonderful for a certain sort of programmer / writer. It’s a rabbit hole that makes PKM look shallow… 
No hurry at all, you are doing me a favor! As to Emacs, based on your description and my utter and total lack of programming/coding knowledge, I think I’ll avoid that rabbit hole. Speaking of rabbits, I took this picture this morning while working on may patio in the backyard. 
@brookter @Bmosbacker FYI: here’s the feature request for keyboard navigation in the Obsidian File Explorer…
…and, related:
Given Milo’s influence (I assume) this is encouraging and something I’d expect us to see in the not too distant future. That said, reading through the Obsidian posts, there are A LOT of feature requests. I don’t see how developers filter and deal with so much input!
It is a fuzzy process balancing the tension of ease-of-implementation with user demand. Discourse’s features help a lot, though. Sort the category by Top - All Time and you get a good picture of what’s sought after.
And yes, there’s currently 2,200 roughly unique feature requests. Not trivial. But, compare with the number that have been completed in the first year—700—and it doesn’t look so bad!
What a great perspective nad information! Thanks!
Thanks for the UI suggestions, guys. Going to throw my own in: Typefaceapp.com. It’s a font management app about as buttery as Things 3.
And please, skew the suggestions towards UI.
For one, I already have my app’s UX on lock. For another thing, aesthetic is translatable. That’s why Porsche Design exists. But good UX is completely contextual to the problem being solved. A 7lb Topre keyboard is the best typing experience on my desk. A 7lb Topre keyboard would be a disaster in my backpack.
My app is a Salesforce competitor. If I embraced the suggestion to ship a core feature at a time, it would look like a city without a plan. If I embraced the suggestion for more customizability over more opinionatedness, and pitched “more customizability than Salesforce”, most companies would s— harder than if I said “it’s like IKEA but you also chop the wood”.
I don’t need UX suggestions. It’s like talking about lenses in someone else’s prescription. I need pure UI inspiration, because I have an uncommonly large app that could benefit from every advantage to soften its big feature set, including min/maxing pleasantness in the UI.
If you’re really just interested in aesthetics, you might simply be satisfied by building a mood board out of submissions to Dribbble.
Hi,
As discussed… Rather than clog up this thread, I’ve sent you a private message with a quick howto on using Scrivener’s ‘Synchronised Folders’ for creating/editing markdown files in an external folder. Hope it’s useful…
David.
Personally I enjoy using Ulysses and Mindnode the most and they look really beautiful to me.
Thank you, that’s a great idea. Satisfied with Dribbble would be a stretch. Votes for actual, testable apps with a track record are still more important. Just like touring an actual architectural marvel beats concept art with all the trash cans and vagrants removed. But this is an awesome lode I hadn’t tapped for miscellaneous UI doodads.
On the Mac, BBEdit is an absolutely delightful example of an app that has a fantastic UI.
On i(Pad)OS, Blink is an app who’s developers understand what the app is for, who uses it, and how that should be implemented on such devices.
