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It's hard to overstate the flowstate Obsidian enables with live / wysiwyg editor view -- enjoy the clean look of rendered HTML while typing simple markdown and
by chrisweekly 3y ago
It's hard to overstate the flowstate Obsidian enables with live / wysiwyg editor view -- enjoy the clean look of rendered HTML while typing simple markdown and kbd shortcuts -- "the whole is greater than the sum
of its parts". There are many other reasons I love Obsidian, but most of all it's the core function -- the editor interface, atop my local, private markdown files.
- mdhb 3y agoYes but this is the exact point. We could have that exact same workflow and user interface with HTML. I (presumably along with the person you’re replying to) don’t understand what value Markdown as the storage format is providing here exactly but I can think of many limitations it imposes.
- chrisweekly 3y agosimpler, lighter, less verbose, more portable, much more readable "in the raw",....
- mdhb 3y agoRight, but the scenario we are describing explicitly makes the “in the raw” part not particularly relevant. I’m not against markdown as an idea of file format, I’m just saying that it has some pretty clear limitations that I think are very much within the scope of what I want out of a tool like that and that weird MDX format they have as a substitute is a step backwards in my opinion.