Is there perhaps an ETA for Panda coming out? I’ll be ditching Obsidian right away once it’s released. I love Bear of course, but I do much prefer having .md files stored in folders (i.e the Obsidian workflow) - so I’m extremely excited for this release!
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ETA is probably a couple of years. 
Wow! This looks amazing!!
I’ve been using vscode to do the same for years now, and since discovering Bear have been considering creating some extensions to add Bear-like features (like tags, and the editor) or even a standalone code-OSS based app 
but Panda’s got it covered 
Whose leg do I have to hump to get a hold of this? and… TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Couple questions;
- Will there be support for extensions (like vsvode) and extension authoring?
- Can I contribute to Panda’s development?
- Is there an official feature request process or is this (or another) thread the place to be?
Ta
I feel like I missed something. Is the earlier-existing macOS alpha of Panda no longer available? I recently had to wipe and restore my MacBook and neglected to save Panda somewhere.
See if this link still works for you: https://sf-applications.s3.amazonaws.com/Panda/Panda.zip
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Good afternoon. Is there any kind of update for the iOS version?
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I notice that the makers of Scrivener have a very similar app coming out soon, possibly early 2025.
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Do you have a link? I tried to google but without success
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Yep, that’s the one. They say end of 2024 in that post, but they’ve since said early 2025.
The new app from Literature & Latte looks pretty nice! Really like the simplicity of it. It does feel it’s very much tailored towards writing - a cleaner, simpler Ulysses rather than something that would compete with Panda, with writing specific features.
Their whole cake text thing is a bit odd; it’s pretty much markdown, with the syntax hidden. As far as I can tell, from the bits of information there are, in order to avoid markdown the doctype will be xml or sth rather than plain text, which puts me off a bit tbh.
To get back on topic, hopefully Panda will be out first, right? 
Would be nice to get an update sometime to see how things are going along…
Would it be possible to give the editing pane a floating material look? An example is attached using Obsidian (and CSS if anyone wants to tinker).
/* Default theme, Light base colour scheme */
/* Rounded top-left corner for the tab header */
.workspace .mod-root .workspace-tabs.mod-stacked .workspace-tab-container .workspace-tab-header {
border-top-left-radius: 8px;
}
/* Background colour when not focused */
body:not(.is-focused) .mod-root .workspace-tabs.mod-stacked .workspace-tab-container {
background-color: var(--background-secondary);
}
/* Remove bottom margin for stacked tab headers */
.mod-root .workspace-tabs.mod-stacked .workspace-tab-header {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
/* Rounded square for normal tab with drop shadow */
.mod-root .workspace-tabs .workspace-tab-header.is-active {
box-shadow: 0px 0px 12px -3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
}
.workspace .mod-root .workspace-tab-header-inner::after {
right: -1px;
}
/* Rounded corners for the workspace tab container */
.mod-root .workspace-tab-container {
box-shadow:
-2px 0 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05),
/* Left shadow */
2px 0 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.175),
/* Right shadow */
0 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
/* Bottom shadow */
border-top-left-radius: 8px;
border-top-right-radius: 8px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 8px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 8px;
margin: -.2em 1em 1em 1em;
/* margin for better visibility */
}
.mod-root .workspace-tabs {
background-color: var(--titlebar-background-focused);
}
/* Adjust UI font size based on
settings in Appearance > Font > Font Size */
body {
--font-ui-medium: 14px;
--font-ui-small: 1.125em;
/*sidebar*/
--font-ui-smaller: 11px;
--icon-xs: 14px;
--icon-s: 15px;
--icon-m: 17px;
--icon-l: 17px;
--header-height: 38px;
--ribbon-width: 10px;
/*40px*/
}
body {
--divider-color: var(--background-secondary);
--h1-font: 'Brandon Text', serif;
--h2-font: 'Brandon Text', serif;
--h3-font: 'Brandon Text', serif;
--h4-font: 'Brandon Text', sans-serif;
--h5-font: 'Brandon Text', sans-serif;
--h6-font: 'Brandon Text', sans-serif;
--default-font: 'Brandon Text', sans-serif;
font-weight: 500;
--font-text-theme: 'Brandon Text', sans-serif;
--keyheader-font: 'Brandon Text', sans-serif;
--h1-size: 1.75em;
--h2-size: 1.625em;
--h3-size: 1.325em;
--h4-size: 1.25rem;
--h5-size: 1.125rem;
--h6-size: 1.0625rem;
--h1-weight: 400;
--h2-weight: 400;
--h3-weight: 400;
--h4-weight: 500;
--h5-weight: 500;
--h6-weight: 500;
--h1-line-height: 2em;
--h2-line-height: 2em;
--h3-line-height: 2em;
--h4-line-height: 1em;
--h5-line-height: 1em;
}
.theme-light {
--background-primary: #f9fffc;
--background-secondary: #e6e2db;
--background-secondary-alt: #e6e2db;
--background-accent: #afbfcf;
--background-accent-alt: var(--background-secondary);
--background-modifier-border: #ada7a4;
--background-modifier-cover: var(--background-secondary);
--background-modifier-form-field: #e6e6e6;
--interactive-accent-hover: #708ca9 --h1-color: #6e151b;
--h2-color: #064d83;
--h3-color: #06837b;
--h4-color: #31373f;
--h5-color: #31373f;
--h6-color: #31373f;
--text-selection: #e8f1f9;
.markdown-preview-view .internal-link {
text-decoration: none;
}
/* Make Status bar accommodate two lines */
.status-bar {
padding-top: 0.1em;
padding-bottom: 0.1em;
line-height: 1em;
max-height: unset;
}
.markdown-preview-view>div ul:not(ul ul) {
padding-inline-start: var(--list-indent-first);
}
/* Remove hyperlink underline Preview Mode */
.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-underline {
text-decoration: none;
color: #82080e;
}
/* Reading Mode */
.markdown-rendered .internal-link {
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
color: #075000;
}
/* Editor and Preview View Styles */
.cm-s-obsidian,
.markdown-preview-view {
color: #1f3c4e;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
-moz-hyphens: auto;
-ms-hyphens: auto;
hyphens: auto;
-webkit-font-smoothing: auto;
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
padding: .25em 1em;
/* top bottom sides*/
@media only screen and (min-width: 414px) and (max-width: 767px) {
/* iPhone 11 Max */
padding: 0 0.5em;
}
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 744px) and (max-device-width: 1133px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
/* iPad Mini 6th Generation */
font-size: 28px;
padding: 0 2em;
}
}
.markdown-source-view :is(.cm-line + .cm-line) {
padding: 0.5em 0;
text-indent: 0em;
line-height: 1.5em;
}
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