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There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps, but I don't really understand why they're useful. Granted, I'm someone who writes Java in Vim, but Markd

There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps, but I don't really understand why they're useful. Granted, I'm someone who writes Java in Vim, but Markdown seems like the one language that's most suited to a simple text editor. It's is already so ergonomic and transparent that I can't really think of anything that would make it easier to write barring an AGI that could decide the words to put down for me. I don't often find myself needing to preview markdown while I'm writing it. I don't think I even really get much out of syntax highlighting. Are there actually a lot of people who get value out of this sort of app?

qwerty456127 7y ago
> There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps And every single one is built on Electron, takes hundreds of megabytes to install, some gigabytes to build while claiming to be "minimal". > I don't really understand why they're useful The rendered view usually looks eye-candy which is a factor of inspiration. E.g. I experience immediate emotional reward as soon as I write something in Typora, it feels like calligraphy while is effortless. It's a dopamine trigger which can encourage you to structure and write the stuff down which is good for productivity. This also means you can produce pretty-looking structured documents while storing them in a concise format which is trivial to both read and to process on almost every machine. You can also use a script to turn an markdown it into a beautiful print-ready PDF by means of LaTeX. I've even switched to Typora from MS Word. Needless to say it is particularly convenient to publish Markdown on GitHub pages. > Markdown seems like the one language that's most suited to a simple text editor It is, by design, yet rendered view is more pleasure to write and to read.
- robbya 7y ago
  https://typora.io/ https://typora.io/

qwerty456127 7y ago

> There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps And every single one is built on Electron, takes hundreds of megabytes to install, some gigabytes to build while claiming to be "minimal". > I don't really understand why they're useful The rendered view usually looks eye-candy which is a factor of inspiration. E.g. I experience immediate emotional reward as soon as I write something in Typora, it feels like calligraphy while is effortless. It's a dopamine trigger which can encourage you to structure and write the stuff down which is good for productivity. This also means you can produce pretty-looking structured documents while storing them in a concise format which is trivial to both read and to process on almost every machine. You can also use a script to turn an markdown it into a beautiful print-ready PDF by means of LaTeX. I've even switched to Typora from MS Word. Needless to say it is particularly convenient to publish Markdown on GitHub pages. > Markdown seems like the one language that's most suited to a simple text editor It is, by design, yet rendered view is more pleasure to write and to read.

robbya 7y ago
https://typora.io/ https://typora.io/