Menuetto 4+

Central features are great; file handling needs work

I’ve got a wiki that stores pages as txt files in Markdown, and I’ve got drafts of posts that I save locally in markdown. Menuetto is a wonderful environment for editing and composing. It’s great to see the markdown rendered as I type. It’s saving me a lot of back-and-forth saving files to the wiki & refreshing.

However, it’s bizarre that Menuetto needs to save its files in its own format. One of the great things about Markdown is how it is plain text, and it should be able to save back to a plain text file. When I open a .txt file in Menuetto, it won’t let me save back to the original .txt. It must save as a .mntd file. If I want to save the edited file, I need to copy/paste out of Menuetto back into the wiki’s web interface or into the local file in *another editor*. Why?!

Three stars for being a great editor; but not four or five if I *have* to use another editor to post to anything but Medium.

Developer Response ,

Hello, Emsariel. Thanks for the review. About save back to text, for now there is a feature under menu: File -> Export To, and then choose "Plain Text" to save a .txt file. Menuetto native document format is more like a container that is able to store more properties associated with text file altogether. For the next upcoming update, we probably will add an extra option to choose saving back to text format directly when carring out saving document function.

Work in progress

Looks very promising and useful out of the gate. Some bugs, it seems syntax highlighting arbitrarily turns off after 55 lines. Support for alternative styles would be great.

Good start, but a work in progress

Menuetto has some nice default styles but is rough around the edges. From small things like not continuing a list on the next line after you hit Return, to larger issues like refusing to open files with a ".md" extension. I'll keep up with future changes but I can't switch to Menuetto as my default Markdown editor just yet.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Abackstrom. Thanks so much for the review. We just issued an update and it's implemented new features to address issues for continuing list on the next line and open files with ".md" or ".txt" extensions 😊