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Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 10, 2019 at 10:51 PM
I don’t care about markdown in Dynalist—didn’t say I did. I care about the very simple yet useful workspace it provides, as well as the quick ability to get notes in and out.
Dynalist’s developers have thus far been very judicious and thoughtful about their product, and I imagine they will continue to be that way.
Luhmann wrote:
Markdown will still be supported. Users will be able to choose.
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>Dr Andus wrote:
>>But I wonder if in turn it will make it less appealing to those of us
>>that prefer the simplicity of Markdown.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Nov 11, 2019 at 12:44 PM
I agree with the problems of markdown syntax “programming” for most users. Especially when you see how the inline styles bold/italic/underline/strikethrough are often implemented is becomes bad quickly. And if you have to explain people how you escape asterics with backslashes and backslashes with double backslashs a lot people end up leaving.
Thats why i decided to implement my editor as WYSIWYG and only use some of markdown syntax as smart shortkeys, so your hands can stay on the keyboard. Bear and Ulysses have gone the same direction but it is still not good enough WYSIWYG.
And nobody ever came up with good table support. Markdown with images or bullet lists in table cells ... not possible in any markdown program i have tried. A program can input/output this tables but not a human.
Lets remember where Markdown comes from. From programmers who wanted to embedd formated documentation inside of source code files which live in plain text programming environments. They just had no choice but note taking apps have.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 12, 2019 at 06:38 PM
I welcome these Dynalist changes, as it appears one will have a choice as to whether to use markdown or WYSIWYG. Too often those of us who have no need for markdown are left behind. Choice is always good. I also appreciate thought is being given to customizing the tool display, which should benefit all of us. I see Dynalist brcoming even more useful than it is already.
Kudos to the developer!
Daly
Posted by Smithers
Mar 7, 2020 at 01:23 AM
Hey Lothar.
You said “your” editor. Mind sharing more info? It sounds cool.
Does it have a file-manager?
Posted by Luhmann
Mar 7, 2020 at 02:59 AM
I believe he is the developer of InfoQube and is referring to the editor in that app: