Hello all,
I am a new refugee from OneNote. I dont need or want MarkDown - I am here for the privacy and native Linux app.
When I press TAB button on keyboard, in every single editor I ever used, from vi to notepad to LibreOffice Writer to OneNote etc etc - tab button moves the text to the right of the cursor. Indents it.
In Joplin, in wysiwyg editor, this indents only bullet list. Nothing else.
Instead, it seems to move the focus around the Joplin app interface items...
I'm obviously missing something .... err.. obvious. Or I hope so.
I've seen the "Indent more" keyboard shortcut (CTRL+]) that did not indent.
I tried installing "Space indenter" plugin, which has a promising option "Indent with tabs" - Did not indent.
I tried installing the "Rich Markdown" plugin, which offers to "Help me ditch the markdown viewer for good" - did not indent.
I searched the docs, searched the changelog, I searched this forum, I searched the Internet.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks!
I'm looking for the same solution. Tried most of the same things. Although I'm an Evernote refugee.
I concluded that Joplin is only useful if you are happy to live with MarkDown limitations. I am not, as I have no use for MD, and I get no benefits from it - only limitations.
Searching everywhere it become clear that Jopin devs are not aiming for any other use, and that WYSIWYG editor is just a facade on top of MD - and very very limited one at that. Lack of any response to my post was just a final proof of that.
I therefore moved to Trilium (next) as it supports HTML (plus bunch of other note formats including MD) that allows formatting for average user - including such extravagant functionality as TAB indenting.
It would be nice if they made this clear somewhere on the home page, preferably in big bold letter in red - and avoid frustration and wasted time for people used to text editing functionality standard in past 30 years or so...
Sure, they do note the underlying MD in many places, and sure they do say that WYSIWYG is limited, but neither did I know what MD actually is, nor did I have any way of anticipating just how limited WYSIWYG really is...
PS. To make things even more frustrating for me, MD does have ">" to indent with, and with a custom CSS you can even remove the gray indenting line this produces in rendering, which would serve the purpose well enough. But still, there is no way to insert ">" in WYSIWYG editor. I even looked for some kind of plugin that would allow me to make a macro that would insert the ">" into MD at the current position of the cursor, but failed... of course, I failed after I migrated all notes form OneNote, after I paid for the sync, and after many many hours wasted...
Hope this helps someone not to make the same mistake.