Markd V3 Release Notes
New Design!
Markd 3 is Here!
Markd started out as an internal tool, and its design had always been very basic. Many of you have told us you wanted a better design - an environment where you’d enjoy working in. So at long last, we re-designed the site!
We wanted to make something that’s in line with our core values - speed, simplicity, and fun. So we partnered with Emmy and BAFTA winning designer/illustrator Alan Macfarlane to create a design that is, we hope, welcoming, intuitive, and pleasant. (Remember to save him on Markd for when you need a brilliant artist.)
Feature Updates
Alongside a new design, we’ve also made a whole lot of changes and updates to Markd. A faster and more secure backend, new ways to add marks, automatic saving, and more direct ways for us to respond to feedback and support.
- A complete re-design of the site, extension, and logo
- New feature to add marks directly on the website without using the extension
- Ability to upload and replace profile images and reference images for marks
- Profile image for the user
- New homepage, resources, and FAQ pages
- Flip preview on marks on the dashboard
- New options for sorting marks (dates, alphabets, reverse order)
- Support button to chat with the Markd team directly on the site
- New on-boarding tutorials
- New controls for adding to lists (from List page)
- Better tag suggestion input
- Auto-saving of marks when editing them
- Tag based searching by clicking tags in marks view
- Search for lists
- Direct mark search from the mark page
- Completely rewritten backend based on GraphQL, Node and MongoDB (technical write-up to follow)
- Much faster performance with lower resource usage
- Lower bandwidth requirements thanks to GraphQL data selection
- Potential future live syncing possibilities via GraphQL subscriptions
- Better caching potential via Apollo Client
- More security thanks to having a Type Safe API
- Modern base with which to build the next set of complex features on 😉
Go to https://markd.co/ and have a spin! Let us know your feedback on the feedback page or email me directly at brandon@markd.co. I look forward to hearing from you soon!