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The Markdown editor I'd been using is no longer maintained, so I'm in the market for one, and Bear caught my eye; it looks really nice, like an app I'd enjoy using.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 threadraychaserJul 31, 2023
@davidcarlton Obsidian?
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 Carlton
@raychaser Yeah, this is more for an “authoring documents” (web pages, blog posts) use case rather than a “second brain” use case.
Jul 31, 2023 at 5:56pmIvory for iOS