Can anyone recommend me a good Markdown editor? I can't seem to find anything that's based on some web engine, which tends to use its own font rendering.
Found a great little #markdown converter/viewer for the terminal: lowdown.
It's written in very portable (#BSD-friendly!) C with no dependencies (laughs in rustc crashing my pinebook, lol) I found it in the debian repos, which is a huge plus.
Super simple to use:
$ lowdown -T term myfile.md |less -r
I'm writing a longer (as it seems) article on the lock-in effect of solutions like #Obsidian that are using open formats like #Markdown for storage. The file format is not the only thing that might lock you in.
I did already start with a list of arguments but also want to collect your ideas so that I don't forget a good argument.
Please, no emotions, just facts and objective arguments.
Reply here in this thread and I'll collect ideas from it. 🙇
I try now #Logseq and this is #OpenSource and I would like to like it but somewhere I can't manage to understand and use it. I don't just want to write down my thoughts and #ideas, I also want to be able to check off a #todo list… 😐
🆕 blog! “WordPress GeSHi Highlighting for Markdown”
I've launched a WordPress Plugin for an extremely niche use-case. WP GeSHi Highlight Redux works with WordPress's Classic Editor to convert Markdown to syntax highlighted code. That allows me to write: php $a = "Hello"; $b = 5 * 2; echo $a . str($b); And have it displayed as: $a = "Hello"; $b = […]
I've launched a WordPress Plugin for an extremely niche use-case.
WP GeSHi Highlight Redux works with WordPress's Classic Editor to convert Markdown to syntax highlighted code.
That allows me to write:
php$a = "Hello";$b = 5 * 2;echo $a . str($b);
And have it displayed as:
$a = "Hello";$b = 5 * 2;echo $a . str($b);
I've previously written about the WP GeSHi Highlight plugin. My plugin is a fork of that. It has the following changes:
RSS & Atom feeds - disable code highlighting
Remove extra style wrappers
Markdown support
Remove line-numbers
Remove escape option (escape now permanent)
Remove TinyMCE changes
Remove custom CSS options
Improve default CSS
Improve HTML detection
These changes work for me, with my weird blogging set-up. If they work for you, feel free to use it. If they don't work for you, please fork and write your own code.
4 new blog posts in April. Seems I'm getting better at sharing my long(er) form thoughts :)
The workflow I now have makes it really easy too. When I have a thread here that I think deserves a blog post, I copy the link to the first toot and paste it in https://mtr.wildeboer.net where I can get a #markdown dump that I can copy/paste in my editor and work on. My blog is #jekyll based and also uses Markdown, so it is easy to do :)
They're working on a DB version in parallel that will provide better scalability, performance and realtime #collaboration (#RTC). They'll charge for RTC.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the end for #orgdown markup as they are implementing #Markdown only now and a conversion feature later on. 😞
Therefore, logseq is not an option for me any more and I'll need to think about a migration strategy for my wife.
Almost thought I had a good way to move #org documents into #confluance from converting them into #html. They used to have a built in HTML renderer but I suppose they couldn't fix it on the cloud and disabled it. Too bad all the html rendering apps from the marketplace are priced WAY too high for what they offer. Guess I'll have to stick with exporting to #markdown for now.
I need to convert #HTML to #Markdown and I'm looking for a tool to do that.
The output should
• preserve line breaks in paragraphs
• not contain additional, unnecessary linebreaks (e.g. 4 empty lines between paragraphs)
• be configurable (e.g. whether to use * or _ for emphasis, or * vs - for unordered lists)
• if possible, allow me to hook into details (e.g. to convert <pre class="shell"> to ```sh)
#Python or #CLI. Alternatively, what's a really configurable prettifier?
I use Markdown a lot & it works well for me. Having recently moved to Wordpress, I find the Gutenberg-type editors very nice for fancy effects, but not for just writing.
Unsurprisingly, I'm facing 24 WP plugins that promise Markdown heaven, and I'd rather not try them all.
Anyone out there would like to share experiences in this matter, please do. @wordpress perhaps?
@RolfBly@wordpress Yeah, it would be easier having #WordPress adding an option to upload #MarkDown files directly with an "upload file" button; many plugins claim to do that but they're not so accessible and #a11y matters. JetPack had such plugin once, but I'd like to less rely on JetPack even if it's still important for followers I have there.
@chris@wordpress@RolfBly Chris, with #WordPress Gutenberg editor it's quite easy to write #MarkDown. To have a heading you just add a new block, then use # character and space. One symbol is h1 level, 6 symbols is h6. Then the corresponding for bold, italic, etc. Separators do a ---- on an empty paragraph. #fediverse help. My 2 cents.
@crimann@wordpress@RolfBly that "useiceberg" is still in "pre-order" and last commit is old, so, I really don't know. What I know is that when I write #MarkDown on a text editor locally, then I select all text, and paste it on #WordPress it creates blocks for me. Then, if the question is "I am annoyed by the blocks interface itself" I don't know how to help. I'm just sharing my experience as it is, by a keyboard-only user's point of view.
If you use Obsidian with the KanBan community plug-in, you likely filter cards by a search term from time to time. Especially on huge kanban boards with a ton of cards.
Here is the problem: By default, non-matching cards are dimmed while matching cards keep their style. I find it visually too cluttered. I’d prefer to only see my matching cards.
Here is my silly reverse-engineered CSS-only solution. Definitely one of my funniest selectors. Works great.
Screenshots of a kanban board coparing the same board before adding the css code and after adding the css code. In the before state the search term #hateit is active. All matching cards light up. All no matchin cards are dimmed. After adding the CSs code the same filter only shows the matching cards. All non-matching cards are gone. Way less visual clutter.