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This looks great. We have too many markdown editors now BTW and none of them provide WYSIWYG like Typora. We really need an open source Typora clone.

baby 6y ago
What’s the point of a WYSIWYG markdown editor? FWIW quip is one. The only thing I can think of is that if you need to post something you wrote on a platform that accepts markdown it makes it easy. But in general I write markdown when I don’t have google doc or quip
- qbasic_forever 6y ago
  It's a mindset change--make writing flow as freely and easily as typing up a reply in gmail. Think about how many paragraphs you can bang out quickly getting a point across in gmail's editor. It doesn't feel like you're authoring content in a CMS, but if you squint that's really what gmail kind of is--just a CMS for writing content directed to a small (or large) set of people through direct e-mail as opposed to published on a web page. You're not in a fancy CMS editor with all these whiz-bang blocks and components--those are just noise that give you more anxiety (should I be making this paragraph a hero/lead element? wait no, what about a side-by-side with a graphic? oh, but what graphic? ... hrm, time to go waste 30 minutes looking at unsplash... oh wait, what was I writing again? oh nevermind, I guess I'll come back to finish this tomorrow when my head is clear). You're not writing content in something that feels like a programming language filled with special characters, an IDE yelling at you for every little misplaced indent or space, etc. You're just writing text with some light formatting to emphasize structure and key elements. Maybe some lists or bullet points thrown in. A graphic figure or two. It's just like composing an e-mail, something you've done thousands and thousands of times already in your life. There's no pomp and circumstance, no steep learning curve... just writing.
  - baby 6y ago
    but why use markdown then? instead of google doc or something?
msoloviev 6y ago
I'm actually working on one (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit). It's native (Gtk+/C++) rather than Electron, too.
- uneekname 6y ago
  This looks like the tool I've been looking for, and the screenshots in your README are beautiful. Thanks for the work you've done on this, I'm excited to try it out.
  - msoloviev 6y ago
    Thanks! I recommend using the repositories or the automated builds or compiling from source, as opposed to the tar.gz binary builds linked directly from the README, as those are somewhat badly out of date now. (I probably should update them at some point.)
- throwaway888abc 6y ago
  Looks very nice, will give it shot over weekend. Curious for new GTK app and the tree/folder structure is helpful to me. Thanks!
- loughnane 6y ago
  Really cool project. Just opened it up and gave it a shot. The ability to sketch is killer. I'll comment on the repo as well, but would love to see the ability to drop in a standard image.
digitalsanctum 6y ago
+1 for Typora. It's my go to for Markdown editing especially when I'm authoring tables. I don't mind it being closed source and it's free.
- sigzero 6y ago
  * Free during beta.
svat 6y ago
"Mark Text" (https://marktext.app/ https://marktext.app/) seems to be one. (HN thread from Nov 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462832 — I asked for other editors like this and got no other answers AFAICT. So this Mark Text is still the only open-source "WYSIWYG" Markdown editor I'm aware of.) Edit: The https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit mentioned in a sibling comment is now another.
- smusamashah 6y ago
  Marktext isn't typora like WYSIWYG. It has a separate preview mode like so many other editors. Typora does it very differently.
  - svat 6y ago
    Are you trying the same Mark Text app (https://marktext.app/ https://marktext.app/ , https://github.com/marktext/marktext https://github.com/marktext/marktext)? Here is a screenshot I just took, trying out things: https://i.imgur.com/bvE0FyM.png https://i.imgur.com/bvE0FyM.png — it seems to do WYSIWYG just like Typora (which I have used extensively), and in fact I can't find a separate preview mode anywhere. (There is a View→Source Code Mode checkbox that you can turn on if you want to view only the source code for some reason, but that's not the default.) See also the screenshots in the GitHub repo's README (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marktext/marktext/develop/docs/marktext.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marktext/marktext/develop/...). Could you explain the difference you have in mind?
    - smusamashah 6y ago
      Sorry, you are right. It does WYSIWYG very similar to typora.
iamcreasy 6y ago
Tried a few markdown readers and I've settled with Obsidian. So far Obsidian has the least amount of bugs and its snappy compare to other Electron based Markdown editors.

baby 6y ago

What’s the point of a WYSIWYG markdown editor? FWIW quip is one. The only thing I can think of is that if you need to post something you wrote on a platform that accepts markdown it makes it easy. But in general I write markdown when I don’t have google doc or quip

qbasic_forever 6y ago
It's a mindset change--make writing flow as freely and easily as typing up a reply in gmail. Think about how many paragraphs you can bang out quickly getting a point across in gmail's editor. It doesn't feel like you're authoring content in a CMS, but if you squint that's really what gmail kind of is--just a CMS for writing content directed to a small (or large) set of people through direct e-mail as opposed to published on a web page. You're not in a fancy CMS editor with all these whiz-bang blocks and components--those are just noise that give you more anxiety (should I be making this paragraph a hero/lead element? wait no, what about a side-by-side with a graphic? oh, but what graphic? ... hrm, time to go waste 30 minutes looking at unsplash... oh wait, what was I writing again? oh nevermind, I guess I'll come back to finish this tomorrow when my head is clear). You're not writing content in something that feels like a programming language filled with special characters, an IDE yelling at you for every little misplaced indent or space, etc. You're just writing text with some light formatting to emphasize structure and key elements. Maybe some lists or bullet points thrown in. A graphic figure or two. It's just like composing an e-mail, something you've done thousands and thousands of times already in your life. There's no pomp and circumstance, no steep learning curve... just writing.
- baby 6y ago
  but why use markdown then? instead of google doc or something?

msoloviev 6y ago

I'm actually working on one (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit). It's native (Gtk+/C++) rather than Electron, too.

uneekname 6y ago
This looks like the tool I've been looking for, and the screenshots in your README are beautiful. Thanks for the work you've done on this, I'm excited to try it out.
- msoloviev 6y ago
  Thanks! I recommend using the repositories or the automated builds or compiling from source, as opposed to the tar.gz binary builds linked directly from the README, as those are somewhat badly out of date now. (I probably should update them at some point.)
throwaway888abc 6y ago
Looks very nice, will give it shot over weekend. Curious for new GTK app and the tree/folder structure is helpful to me. Thanks!
loughnane 6y ago
Really cool project. Just opened it up and gave it a shot. The ability to sketch is killer. I'll comment on the repo as well, but would love to see the ability to drop in a standard image.

digitalsanctum 6y ago

+1 for Typora. It's my go to for Markdown editing especially when I'm authoring tables. I don't mind it being closed source and it's free.

sigzero 6y ago
* Free during beta.

svat 6y ago

"Mark Text" (https://marktext.app/ https://marktext.app/) seems to be one. (HN thread from Nov 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462832 — I asked for other editors like this and got no other answers AFAICT. So this Mark Text is still the only open-source "WYSIWYG" Markdown editor I'm aware of.) Edit: The https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit mentioned in a sibling comment is now another.

smusamashah 6y ago
Marktext isn't typora like WYSIWYG. It has a separate preview mode like so many other editors. Typora does it very differently.
- svat 6y ago
  Are you trying the same Mark Text app (https://marktext.app/ https://marktext.app/ , https://github.com/marktext/marktext https://github.com/marktext/marktext)? Here is a screenshot I just took, trying out things: https://i.imgur.com/bvE0FyM.png https://i.imgur.com/bvE0FyM.png — it seems to do WYSIWYG just like Typora (which I have used extensively), and in fact I can't find a separate preview mode anywhere. (There is a View→Source Code Mode checkbox that you can turn on if you want to view only the source code for some reason, but that's not the default.) See also the screenshots in the GitHub repo's README (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marktext/marktext/develop/docs/marktext.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marktext/marktext/develop/...). Could you explain the difference you have in mind?
  - smusamashah 6y ago
    Sorry, you are right. It does WYSIWYG very similar to typora.

iamcreasy 6y ago

Tried a few markdown readers and I've settled with Obsidian. So far Obsidian has the least amount of bugs and its snappy compare to other Electron based Markdown editors.