Yet another Markdown editor...

Posted by jaslar
May 1, 2018 at 08:57 PM

All things are mortal. Even software.

I really liked the first version of Smartdown, which I bought. I had high hopes for the second, which I also bought. But I find that I don’t use either. I do believe that we have to support developers doing work we like. But as has been noted here before (not by me), we should buy what actually does what we need, not just what might eventually become that.

Things that hit the mark: Editorial on iOS. Haroopad on many platforms. And of course, emacs (markdown-mode and org-mode). Lately, even Google Docs with outline view is pretty acceptable, and I just discovered that it has keyboard commands to move to various headings.

As much as I like markdown, it needs at least the following to be what I want:

- folding
- navigation by heading
- commands to rearrange folded sections.

Several editors do the first two, now. But with the third one, there’s a confluence of markdown and outlining. Emacs has it. Workflow, Dynalist, Checkvist, can get there. But none of it is quite as seamless and easy as it ought to be.

Therefore, CRIMP.