Dynalist goes awry?

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.