External file editing

[thwaller]

I have really grown to like Joplin... including the web clipper thanks to the users in this forum. I wanted to thank all those who have responded to my prior posts and questions. I mention this to preface my issue.

While I use Joplin for my primary notes, one part that is missing, or seems to be, is the ability to work with external files, like a set of markdown files. I don't with to discuss in this thread the use for development vs note taking, but I often need to use other editors for markdown. I have some examples so this can be better understood:

1. GitHub "README" files
2. GitHub "pages"
3. Docs on my local intranet, where Apache has a markdown handler to display the contents
4. Working on shared markdown documents, like notes during software eval and testing

While a lot of the above is technically "development", it is also note taking. On the above items, 1 and 2 are easily done in VSCode (or the IDE of your choosing). But once we get to 3 and for sure 4, VSCode (or your IDE) is not ideal. I find myself using Typora for these files, which I think is a great piece of software, but they are not open source and I dislike supporting them even though at least for now it is free.

I have tried numbers other softwares and still have most installed... VNote, MarkText, Quilter, GhostWriter, PanWriter, Apostrophe, CherryTree,, Zim, etc... but there is one problem with 2 parts. None of these are to par with Typora, and Typora I have second to Joplin which is not a fit for this use. I enjoy the markdown editing experience in Joplin more than any other software I have tried. While I realize this might be considered out of scope, has any consideration been given to a second "mode"? Sort of like the database mode and file mode?

[rxliuli]

While I use Joplin for my primary notes, one part that is missing, or seems to be, is the ability to work with external files, like a set of markdown files.

If you need to quote an external file, you can insert a link if you are online, otherwise use an attachment. The former has some requirements, and the latter faces synchronization problems. But if you want to use an external document to quote Joplin's content, it is currently very difficult. . . Maybe Joplin Server can change this situation.

1. GitHub "README" files
2. GitHub "pages"
3. Docs on my local intranet, where Apache has a markdown handler to display the contents
4. Working on shared markdown documents, like notes during software eval and testing

These are edited with an external editor (such as VSCode), and it seems to have nothing to do with Joplin.

I have tried numbers other softwares and still have most installed... VNote, MarkText, Quilter, GhostWriter, PanWriter, Apostrophe, CherryTree,, Zim, etc... but there is one problem with 2 parts.

All tools solve some problems and bring others. There is no truly perfect program. For example, Joplin solves the problems of synchronization, search, and cross-platform, but introduces the problem of editing. I developed the joplin vscode plug-in to try to solve this problem, but it brought other problems such as remote joplin web clipper service not supporting, synchronous editing of attachment resources, and inability to batch selection.