David CarltonJul 31, 2023

The Markdown editor I'd been using is no longer maintained, so I'm in the market for one, and Bear caught my eye; it looks really nice, like an app I'd enjoy using.

But it kind of just isn't a Markdown editor? It doesn't use plain text files, it doesn't follow standard Markdown behavior when exporting to HTML.

A pity, because I was looking forward to it; I can maybe live with the first of those, but the second is kind of a problem...

Show threadraychaser
@davidcarlton Obsidian?
Jul 31, 2023 at 4:00amWeb
Show threadDavid CarltonJul 31, 2023
@raychaser I'd actually been meaning to try Obsidian out for other reasons, but I hadn't thought of it as a Markdown editor. And, poking at it, I think that's at least partly correct - in particular, poking through the menus, I don't see a way to convert from Markdown to HTML at all? (To be sure, you can make a case that that's not a necessary part of being a Markdown editor, but it is part of the functionality that I'm looking for...)
Show threadDavid CarltonJul 31, 2023
@raychaser Maybe I'm missing something, though. But even if it isn't there I should definitely think about using Obsidian if I switch to doing the Markdown -> HTML conversion in my blog.
Show threadraychaserJul 31, 2023
@davidcarlton I am not myself an Obsidian user (but I use Logseq heavily) so the comment was more based on “pattern matching”—but it would as if Obsidian does work for many people as that “second brain” thing
Show threadDavid CarltonJul 31, 2023
@raychaser Yeah, this is more for an “authoring documents” (web pages, blog posts) use case rather than a “second brain” use case.