Are there any #PlainText or #Markdown apps that can list the full names of files, on multiple lines, on a narrow screen? Landscape orientation helps, but it is not the solution I’m looking for.
#Obsidian Is the only one I’ve found so far that can do this.
All I want is to be able to browse the full text of long file names, in a list, in an app that doesn’t take 5 minutes to start up (I’m using iCloud for syncing Obsidian).
@ellane@obsidianmd That’s yet another Obsidian feature that makes it hard to use anything else once you’re used to it. Being able to read the whole file name seems so obviously better that it’s mind-boggling that it isn’t the standard way of doing things in all apps that manage files.
I wish the indent = code block behavior would get deprecated from the #markdown specs. Triple backtick fences for code blocks and single backticks for inline code seem to have those bases covered, and indents could be freed again for the purposes for which they’ve always been used in prose and verse. (Markdown sucks for #writing#poetry because of the indent prohibition.)
Programmers aren’t the only ones who use markdown.
I've never really been that impressed by them, and maybe I'm in the minority about that, but I also will make the effort to use the proper Unicode for many characters (e.g. … ℃ ㎜ π ‽ ½), so I can understand the impulse. Curly quotes and a few other characters happen to be in a range of Windows-1252 encoding that makes them inherently unreliable after coming in contact with Windows.
I'd argue that these encoding issues are not rare, because of this weakness. It doesn't take long to find examples.
@curlyquotefails@alxlg@edwiebe@obsidianmd Although I’ve seen it before, I haven’t run into that issue much (certainly it doesn’t affect me day-to-day). It seems like a technical problem to be solved rather than a reason to throw in the towel and use straight quotes where they’re not appropriate.
For anyone who cares about typography, straight quotes in prose are a nonstarter. They also create problems in anything that’s heading to a designer for layout.
#Zettlr 3.0 was released today. I’m looking forward to trying it as a general-purpose markdown editor to supplement #Obsidian, because you can use .md files anywhere in your system, not just in folders designated as vaults. https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Although I’d very much like to see it happen, #iA Writer will probably never have live preview (@reichenstein personally dislikes it), but I’m still hoping for a toggle to make the markdown characters light gray so they don’t fight with the text.
If you know how to turn on live preview in #Drafts, please let me know. I don’t see it in the settings.
I view plump old school WYSIWYG as a step back. I dislike the show/hide wiggle. And I think that if you see md just as a more readable text format that needs to be hidden you misunderstand it.
Did you know we're running our Tech Blog https://blog.zero-iee.com using Hugo, GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages? :github:
The content is composed using Markdown. Hugo (run via GitHub Actions) translates HTML templates and Markdown files to a collection of HTML files. GitHub Pages then displays the resulting HTML files and handles SSL.
All we need to do is write a new article in Markdown syntax and push it to our GitHub repository. HTML generation and publishing are fully automated.
While we could host a CICD pipeline and a web server ourselves, we prefer the current low-effort soultion. 😉