Currently by default the note body is centered and its width is limited to 600 px. This improves readability for large notes in particular. However when the note is just a word or two, it might look weird in the middle of the screen and it seems to surprise even new users. So I'm wondering would it…

For the editor I would think it should be left aligned, on an ultrawide monitor it looks especially odd to have that chasm and I think the setting name "Editor maximum width" doesn't really indicate why changing the width of the editor would centre align it. It makes more sense for the viewer and r…

Works well for me as it is. Keith

An alternative would be to style the margins with another (darker) colour. This would give the illusion of a long sheet of paper. This is how document processors get away with centering text.

I like this approach for the reader and richtext editor (providing it can be configured by css). However I do lean towards the "markdown is code" viewpoint in regards to the editor so it would feel a little strange to me to have what is essentially a text editor present as a WYSIWYG/document editor. …

Hi, I think that the firts question actually points to somewhere else. So let's suppose that you have only 3 columns opened (Notebooks, Seach and table of contents, Rich editor) now the question is if Joplin provides and option of fixing typed text to the LEFT. Something like on this picture perhap…

I upgraded to last version of Joplin Portable Windows 2.3.5 (but same for Joplin Desktop Windows) and all my notes are centered and limited to few picel width like your screen cap. I almost only use simple text editor mode, no markdown rendering or rich editor or dual view and it completely breaks …

[image] Please read this if you are wondering why there's now a margin on the note text News The latest version of Joplin sets a maximum width for the note content in order to improve readability . You can disable this by going into Configuration > Appearance and set the w…

Thank you so much ! I stupidely searched everywhere (@google) before asking this here and you saved me in 20 minutes. I won't do it again :slight_smile:

No problem, it has been quite a common topic of late and there have been more than a few different terms used for it, I'm not overly surprised a search didn't return much. It was a pinned topic until a couple of days ago so you just barely missed finding it easily.

Daeraxa is right - thank you for that! It's actually written in json schema: https://joplinapp.org/schema/settings.json This part: "style.editor.contentMaxWidth": { "type": "integer", "default": 600, "description": "Editor maximum width. Set it to 0 to make it take the complete availabl…

Center note text or left align by default?

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Center note text or left align by default?

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