• David Zaslavsky@techhub.social
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    7 months ago

    @Pantherina “I mean notes should have bold headers, not hashtags.” OK, but that reflects what *you* want from a notes app, not what everyone wants. And of course that’s totally fine, you can get that from a notes app that has WYSIWYG formatting if you find that it works for you. But I would suggest that it doesn’t make sense for you to enter a discussion about a Markdown notes app and tell a bunch of people, for many of whom that app probably works pretty well, that they’re making a bad choice to use it because it doesn’t offer the behavior you want.

    For what it’s worth, I think a lot of people use Markdown notes apps in a way that you might not be considering. Like, this separation between writing and viewing that you’re talking about simply doesn’t exist in my note-taking workflow. I usually just read the raw markup, possibly with some minimal formatting added on by whatever app I’m using.

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      7 months ago

      But I would suggest that it doesn’t make sense for you to enter a discussion about a Markdown notes app and…

      I dont. I just think that writing inline Markdown formatting is really nice and better than clicking buttons, and at the same time I think that Nextcloud Notes has a pretty nice concept.

      So it you view the raw code always, what is the benefit of markdown here? I dont see how

      ### Header
      

      Is better than

      --- Header ---
      

      Which is what I normally use as header formatting in scripts etc.

      • Iαη@mastodon.cloud
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        7 months ago

        @Pantherina @diazona @louis_sch
        Having an option to choose should keep twice as many people happy. The markdown apps I use, don’t show any formatting marks, and have style icons. Lots of us outside the IT world are used to this wysiwyg way.