I'm looking for a note-taking app that, by default, shows markdown notes as formatted. Only if you edit them would they revert to their plain-text form. Hence, for such an app, there would be no "markdown preview" -- it would be the default view.
Is Notebooks like that?
Hi Paul,
yes, that is exactly the way Notebooks handles Markdown. Once converted, Notebooks shows just the HTML version (if you want that, of course), and you need to switch the document to "edit mode" in order to see the plain text version, which you can then further modify.
This behavior is just one option, of course, because is is just as well possible to have separate txt and html
versions of a document.
Kind regards,
Alfons
Do the plain-text and HTML versions stay "linked" together somehow so that I don't see two copies (one plain text and one HTML) of the same document?
Yes; Notebooks saves the plain text version as a comment in the HTML document, so all you see is the HTML. When you decide to further edit the document, Notebooks extracts the plain text and presents that for editing. When you are done, Notebooks converts the text to HTML, embeds the plain text and displays the HTML.
In case you want to edit that document form your computer, you need to open it in a text editor and make your changed to the embedded plain text; changes you make to the HTML are ignored when NB syncs the next time.
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