Sorry, but can't the editor be designed a bit better?
Having two windows which just consumes more space is a bit clunky. Why not have just one markdown editor window and add a toggle to show the markdown or not show it? At the moment you can only edit in the markdown editing window. Not a great design. Sorry, but that is non-starter for me to use Joplin.
1). There are three views for the markdown editor:
Split view (markdown editor on the left, rendered markdown on the right)
Editor only
Viewer only
You can toggle between them by clicking the "toggle editor layout" button on the top-right (or using the keyboard shortcut, ctrl + l by default).
You can also customize which layouts get cycled when toggling the editor layout via View | Layout button sequence. E.g. if you want the toggle to switch between editor only and viewer only, you can set it to "Editor / Viewer".
There's also a setting to render markdown within the markdown editor under Tools | Options | Note, so that you see the rendered markdown on all but the selected line in the editor.
2). There's also a rich text editor which has just one view, which you can toggle to using the toggle editors button on the top right
Yes, Editor/Viewer really saved may ass. I needed press the toggle layout twice or thrice, which was I kind pain.
May be we should request to keep this "Editor/Viewer" layout as default.
I set "View-Layout button sequence" to "Editor / Viewer" and then just toggle with Ctrl-L but maybe that doesn't work on your machine. Look at Keyboard Shortcuts for "Toggle editor layout".
Yep, I get it completely. But, that doesn’t help the fact that you cannot edit all the time. You should be able to edit even in the Viewer window. In fact there should not be a Viewer window, only an Editor window where the markdown can be toggled on or off as needed. Sorry, but that seems much more intuitive to me. I know you can toggle the views with Ctrl-L. The split screen idea is not good as it is a problem with screen real estate. Having one edit screen eliminates that problem (i.e., no Viewer window). And one does not have to Ctrl-L between views continuously. Using one editor window toggling markdown on/off would seldomly be needed. It is simply not necessary to view markdown all the time.
I currently use Zim which, in my opinion, is much better. However, it does not have collapsible sections as of yet and tags don’t work very well. I wrote a collapsible section that works except that making it searchable was proving to be a problem with the way Zim is currently constructed. And rewriting a major part of Zim is doable but lengthy. That is what led me to check out Joplin. Had Joplin had one editor window as Zim does, I would have switched instantly.
The closest to what you're looking for is:
- Switch layout to editor only
- Go to Tools | Options | Note | enable the render markup in editor options
This will show the rendered markdown in the editor view on all lines except for the selected line
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Ok, thanks for your reply; but, that’s not what I would prefer. I will stick with Zim for the time being.