Code Story allows you to document your project, using live views of your codebase, and much more. Embed live views of your code right in the middle of your notes. Jump into your favorite editor, or the other way round. Just need to do a small edit? Click into the view and transition like magic into a full-page editor, without leaving your note. Any feature of your application most likely involves multiple portions of code, spread across multiple files. Code comments don't let you draw the big picture, and using a separate documentation is cumbersome and nearly impossible to maintain. With Live Code Views, you are now able to document your project in a rich-text editor and insert live, editable views of your codebase right into your notes.
Solutions
- Code comments: no big picture. While they are OK to explain the purpose of a module, function or block of code, code comments fall short of providing the big picture, because any feature or mechanism you’ll want to describe most likely involves multiple chunks of code spread across multiple files.
- Hard to maintain. A minor refactoring and the existing documentation gets irrelevant, without anyone even noticing.
- Wikis: cumbersome. Relying on a separate document (such as a wiki) would be the only way to provide the overview and enjoy a rich text documentation. However, making the connection between the notes and the code turns out to be a pain.
- No immediate benefits. Writing a documentation and keeping it up to date takes some time and effort: it has a substantive, immediate cost and requires great discipline. The developer doesn't perceive that his documentation task as useful for himself.
Version 1.0.4:
- Initial public release
- OS X 10.11 or later
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