What are /r/Markdown's favorite Products & Services?

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Before asking if Markdown will remove an ability, I think it's important to understand why Markdown was designed and what is was designed for. On that page, you'll also see the original Markdown hasn't changed since 17 Dec 2004 (and, features have only been added).

A more interesting questions is will markdown add the ability to do insert feature here. For that, most of the discussion happens on CommonMark.

What do you mean by privately sync?

DropBox keeps your files encrypted.

Resilio Sync uses peer 2 peer technology to sync files across your devices without needing to store them on a third party server.

The functionality that you are looking is something called "what you see is what you get" aka WYSIWYG

If you want a open source alternative to typora there's Mark text

You can also use Joplin, it also has a mobile app

I suggest you look into Obsidian. It’s completely cross platform, with Windows/Linux/macOS/Android/iOS versions.

Not sure what you mean by conversion between markdown and plaintext—markdown is plaintext with characters like asterisks and hash signs to indicate bold/italic, heading levels, etc. Obsidian offers 3 main ways to view your note: source mode (shows all markdown characters), live preview (hides markdown characters except when your cursor is adjacent to them), and reading mode.

All the apps are free. I use Obsidian Sync, which is paid and excellent, but there other ways to sync and most people use them because they’re free or cheaper.

Obsidian is extremely customizable and extensible with maybe 100 themes and over 600 plugins so far.

FYI, there’s a major new version of Obsidian coming that’s in beta right now.

You’re welcome! Glad you’re enjoying SimpleNote. One thing to be aware of is that they store your notes unencrypted on their servers, so it’s best not to use it for confidential information, which you may or may not be okay with.

That reminds me of another option I forgot to mention: Joplin. It supports the same five platforms as Obsidian and is free and open source. My favorite thing about it is that I was able to sync between my laptop and phone with e2e encryption using OneDrive for free (because I already had plenty of OneDrive space I wasn’t using). They also support Dropbox, Nextcloud, WebDAV, S3, and their own paid syncing service.

If you consider having them converted and stored in a server space anyway - why not use something like Hugo? Any update (or any update) would be rendered automatically into HTML. It is just a matter of having it configured once (a pretty simple thing).

Could you not just type the character directly?

On Linux, with compose key: compose + c + c for caron-c.

Windows: via http://wincompose.info/ (or alt codes I can never remember).

Mac: option-v c (I think, untested)

Bonus: works outside of markdown

Thanks! The more I get into researching this it seems like I should stick to a true database maker like GRAMPS to digitize all the data, and then maybe if I want to make something fancy I can come back to markdown for the website.

You should try zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/. It even has zotero support. Plus its open source, and seems committed to that.

For me, it was the citations and the ability to create inline h2 timestamps with a single command. With their workflow tab (in settings), this was also possible.

You can also interact with registered tags (which are somewhat proprietary).

I've been using Typora for a long time. The only problem with it is that it's not free software nor open source. The alternative I'm using now is https://www.zettlr.com/ which is an open sourced and very powerful editor. With a lot of built-in functionality to help produce notes/documentation/research papers and articles among other things

There's restructured text and textile.

I find markdown the easiest because a lot of the formatting is single character, and there's formatting characters that aren't dependent on white-space (like ``` codeblocks)

Use it alongside (Marked 2)[https://marked2app.com], which will monitor and refresh a preview of your markdown file (or clipboard) as you're going. Lets you select from several built-in themes, plus you can download more, and create your own (if you want to).

Vim, always Vim (MacVim on the Mac), with Markdown syntax highlighting (currently using the tpope variant but there are others). Then I have a shortcut to open files in the Marked app on macOS for proper Markdown viewing.

Since Chromebooks can run Android apps, I would go with JotterPad+ from the Android store. Alternately, you can use the browser-based stackedit.io with a cloud service, which is an OSS application.

  Typing a non-breaking space followed by two regular spaces works on the Dingus.
Let's see if it works here.
Edit: Hey, it worked!
Edit to edit: But the non-breaking space disappeared the first time I edited...

markdown syntax is easier than I thought. Now I^need to get the dam thing through it's pace. So :

1. learn
2. practice
3. practice some more
4. eat
5. learn
6. sleep
7. repeat

Hi everyone,

I am one of the creators of Nota. I will answer questions if anyone has any.

Nota has been a long journey for us. We've been working on it full-time for more than three years, and before that, we spent another three years working on Nota's predecessor, Caret.

Nota is free to use, but now and then, it'll prompt you to purchase a license. Licenses don't expire (no subscription).

I've used it a lot over the years, it is a program, https://cmap.ihmc.us/cmaptools/cmaptools-download/ and you don't need your own server, you can create an account on their public infrastructure and create a password if you wanted to sync over multiple devices.

I've found it very useful. the alternative I used was free mind, and that had a slightly different take. another great alternative was 'thebrain' but there is a lot of upsell for their professional products....

I haven't tried it, but there was an article in the latest Linux Magazine about https://hedgedoc.org/ -- perhaps check it out?

> While HedgeDoc is reminiscent of Google Docs and Etherpad, HedgeDoc has the ability to show both the actual Markdown source code and the HTML web page preview.

This comment is of course formatted with Markdown :-)

Okay, well, whether you use pandoc or not, I think your markdown is off, but I'm not confident I understand what you are trying to do. In advanced markdowns, the charet character ^ is used to designate footnotes. You can use the markdown editor at hackmd.io to experiment with features and get immediate feedback, such as in this example

> Seem to work nicely, though I don't really understand why I need to put my documents in a folder named "notes"

I just liked this structure, if you have a better one to suggest feel free to join the thread here: https://github.com/notable/notable/issues/54

> It also doesn't register as a MIME type and I don't see a way to select it to open a file from the Files app...

Let's track this here: https://github.com/notable/notable/issues/940.

In hindsight this is kinda obvious to have.

don't know if it is too late to answer, but i've fallen in love with notable. it has a markdown editor, but defaults to reader view. can organize notes and add nested tags through YAML which is good because it only shows files in one directory (can change directory easily though)

The folks who make Bear have released the upcoming editor Panda as a standalone Markdown editor. It's an alpha release, but I haven't seen any issues with it. They are contemplating releasing it as its own app once the new version of Bear is released

VSCode is also an excellent Markdown editor - especially with the Markdown Preview Enhanced and Markdown All In One extensions - but it is Electron based. It's quite performant though, likely because the full weight of Microsoft is behind making it so

I don't think it's as quite nice as Bear, but I've been using QOwnnotes to replace nValt which I was using a similar function - bonus points as it works on Linux and Windows which I use at work. It has Owncloud/Nextcloud sync, but with this off, it saves all files to the PC as markdown (or text files) and has the option for different fonts for different sections.

It has a preview, but can be turned off and can be as minimal or busy as you want (i.e. if you just want it looking like nValt it's no issue, but you can also have tags and preview if you want.

GhostWriter most of the time, I have nano configured specifically for some systems that don't do graphics (very old laptop set up for distraction free writing).

I think Dolphin (file manager) can search through through the content of markdown files. But to get the best search, you can use Obsidian package/app https://obsidian.md/ it presents the results really well and you can filter ...