Markdown vs WSYWYG

Posted by 22111
Sep 5, 2013 at 05:56 PM

“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.”

That wasn’t you writing there, and my fault was, I made the citation from above without judging it necessary to give the author’s name, and I put “fanboys” in plural, trying to weaken the expression by not putting it directly to the author I had cited, but trying to speak more in general - I wasn’t aware I could cause others to think they were meant too in particular - sorry!

There is no bolding here, so I cite again:

“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.”

As we all know, this is simply NOT TRUE, it could even be called a big, big lie; at least control-b and such is available everywhere, even if you don’t spice up your keyboard by any macro tool.

So it’s gross tweaking reality in order to make a big, big disavantage into an alleged advantage, and that’s fanboy behavior, as when Apple fanboys explain to you why it’s an advantage to have no possbility to change the battery or to put some data in by usb stick. It is the most gross marketing speak we were accustomed to 20 years ago; most suppliers don’t even dare to continue such gross marketing speak for fear of total loss of credibility.

Which more is, why not leave such marketing lies to the respective developers, especially when they take part in this forum, as is the case for the developer here whose name I remember to have seen sometimes here. Similar for speculations why a given software doesn’t have this feature or deliberately refrains from having that other feature: It should be up to the developer to answer such questions that are perfectly legitimate in 2013, I think.

This being said, you say CT is an outliner indeed. So let’s assume I am simply wrong, and it is an outliner!

For me, the wiki concept is worthless, I just need outliners, the 2-pane variety, and it’s highly interesting that wikipedia.org is doing reflections upon the possibilies to overlay wikipedia with a big outline: Even for them, so successful with this wiki concept, the “lost in hyperspace” problem seems to have become unbearable, and in fact, the only people who really profit from the web’s being a hyperspace instead of an outline are Google, since without they couldn’t sell their expensive ads.

This being said, could anybody explain in brief if CT is an outliner in such a way I imagine it, in the way of Ultra Recall or something like (and without the latter’s additional features of course)? Or do we speak of different things here?

I think I have understood some former explanations in this way that CT is a wiki, where you create new items from their links to existing items, and this is not an outliner. Then, you can (from what I have, perhaps wrongly, understood) built up specific outlines within ranges of such “hypercards”, in order to have quicker access to those “cards”/items within that “stack”/range of items, but by no means, you’ll get a 10,000 items “tree” for your 10,000 cards, except manually, this way, “put the current item to the current tree” or something.

So, if in the end you need an outline, with CT you will be lost, since it will not deliver this outline, only partial outlines here and there where the investment of your time and effort will be justified by your ABSOLUTE need of an outline at least there, but for all the rest, you will have to live with your wiki.

You see, I’m not trying to just childishly pretend, “CT is not an outliner”, in order to childishly pretend it’s bad, but I have come to this conclusion from my (perhaps wrong) understanding of its conception.

I would be glad to hear my representation is wrong, really! (And then, I would hope the developer introduced wysiwyg asap.)