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Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 2, 2013 at 09:16 AM
I’d argue that markdown (and other markup notations such as ConnectedText’s own) is faster than WYSIWYG. The latter is only seemingly faster. Remember that you need to take your hand off the keyboard to a) highlight the text with the mouse and b) to click on the Bold icon, and c) put your hand back on the keyboard. By that time a fast typist has typed those two (or four) asterixes.
I only use markdown in minimalist iOS writing apps that do not have a Bold button to click on. It has pretty much become the standard. (But if it goes into CT, I use CT’s own markup.)
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 2, 2013 at 09:45 AM
Here is an iPad example I’ve just come across where you can transform a text using markdown (in an app called Editorial) to an iThoughtsHD mind map:
http://editorial-app.appspot.com/workflow/5396970004807680/Wbz6lzr0518
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 2, 2013 at 07:34 PM
Funnily enough, I was about to mention Editorial, which is by far the most accomplished and powerful Markdown editor on iOS (and there are a lot of Markdown editors on iOS!). You can use it as a very powerful text editor, but it’s got a full Python-based scripting language as well, which is well-documented and easy to use.
It’s also that most satisfactory of Markdown editors - one that shows you markup plus effect of markup in a single screen (you can, of course, preview the final HTML output, too - it uses side-swipes for moving from screen to screen). Because of the elegant font, the combination of markup and output isn’t as confusing as it is in other editors that use this technique (I’m thinking of that wiki one, but I can’t remember its full name).
I’ve ditched my (many) other Markdown editors in favour of Editorial. Thoroughly recommended (not least because of the very powerful search function, with highlighting, multi-file search etc. etc.).
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 3, 2013 at 03:29 PM
After what was probably the most challenging summer of my life (I may talk about that another time…) I decided to buy myself a gift and purchased the Galaxy Note 8” tablet. It is a very good piece of equipment and I’m now looking into ways of using it productively—or excuses for having bought it, if you will.
I’ve successfully installed most apps that work fine in my aged Xperia Mini Pro phone and then some, but my favourite MarkDown editor Denote simply crashes whenever I start it. I therefore found Draft https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mvilla.draft which seems really competent. It is unrelated to the Draft service discussed here, as far as I can tell.
By the way, having ample external memory in my tablet, I also installed Dropsync, which works like Dropbox does in PCs, i.e. actually keeping local copies of selected folders in the device. This way I can work with other cross-platform apps that don’t sync on their own (yet) like Notecase Pro.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 3, 2013 at 04:18 PM
Ah, I have been dribbling over the Galaxy Note 8 (I hope you’ve already played with the multiwindow feature - seriously cool), but am gradually concluding that once I dip my toe into 8” tablet waters, I shall probably go for an iPad Mini. Simply because so many of my favourite apps are available for it. I like Android very much (and my daughter has just swapped from iPhone to Galaxy Note II with squeaks of joy), but really good tablet apps are definitely a little thin on the ground.
Having said that, the Galaxy Note 8 does come with the very pleasant AwesomeNote app, which is an iOS stalwart.