A discussion came up on Reddit regarding the various editors and the confusion around them: https://old.reddit.com/r/joplinapp/comments/13yk21o/what_am_i_doing_wrong_why_does_joplin_hate_simple/ One issue that came up is that we currently have an option to set the editor to "viewer-only" mode. In …

Hi, I use the read-only mode a lot. I don't understand why it should be removed. If it is for the sake of clarity, I think you could add visible labels that say, for example: MD Editor, MD Viewer, Rich Editor. This would make it easy to see which mode you are in at any given time. In my opinion, if…

I don't really use the view-only mode, but @dpoulton makes a very good case for it. I've been relying on Rich Markdown, but I miss out nice stuff like tables and ToCs because I don't want to see that fugly Markdown. Maybe I'll try his method. If Joplin presents itself as confusing, it's a messaging…

Exactly my way of usage, esp. with the persistent layout; please do not remove the viewer-only-option. If you absolutely must remove something, I would rather lose the WYSIWYG.

I really like how this is done in Intellij. They have a toolbar in the right top corner of the markdown area with an Iconbutton for all three options: "Editor only", "Editor and Preview", "Preview only". The toolbar is also only visible when the cursor in positioned inside the markdown area. [image…

[image] laurent: Do you ever use that mode? Please work closely with the Note Overview plugin before you remove read-only mode. Right now this is the only way that the Note Overview plugin works and I rely on that heavily. Details - If Note Overview runs while in the rich text editor, it del…

I mainly use MD et view-only mode. So, please, keep it. Why dont you set an option ... one button to switch between the 4 modes (MD, view-only, split WYSIWYG) and as an option we could choose which mode we want in the rotation.

Hi laurent, My conclusion: I think the viewer-only mode should stay, because it is a useful and important feature for many users, including myself. However, I also understand that some users may find it confusing or unnecessary, and that it may have some drawbacks for the development and maintenanc…

I believe the issue is that the desktop only wysiwig editor sometimes deletes the markdown comments. The plugin also only runs on the desktop. There could be several possible reasons why. The wysiwyg editor works just fine on my phone if that helps.

@Maire , My workflow here is to toggle between the markdown and view modes (the read-only rendered markdown view) as needed. I haven't ever used the WYSIWYG editor, but I believe it's as you say, that it can change the markdown. The phone apps don't have any facility for using plugins at present.

Remove the viewer-only mode in the desktop app?

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johano 10 June 2023 16:26 20

Likewise with the Embed Search plugin

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Remove the viewer-only mode in the desktop app?

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