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.
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.
I found that Ctrl-Tab will indent as Tab normally does; it will do it repeatedly. Shift-Ctrl-Tab will clear the tab over. It will not work for several paragraphs at once, highlighted. Trying Ctrl-Tab for several highlighted with delete them.
Joplin is a markdown-based notebook managed application. Markdown has it's limitations just like any other format, but it is actually far more freeing than most. That's why most modern notebook applications lean on markdown as their native format and why markdown is the preferred medium for most of us who use these kinds of applications extensively. Markdown has the advantage of being stupidly simple for anyone to pick up very quickly and also massively powerful for those who learn how to manipulate it intimately. And it is extremely portable when switching tools. I am not a developer on the project, just a user (I use it primarily as a writer), but I wouldn't expect the developers to move from the markdown format. Why would they? (Maybe someday Joplin will support the .odt format or some such, but I hope not.) And I am very certain they will not respond to posts that are one step shy of a flame. Is Markdown new to you? RTFM. It's well-explained in one of the help docs installed by default when you install the application: ref the "Welcome" notebook.
The WYSIWYG editor just lets you edit the markdown text as it would appear in rendered format. That's it. This is a notetaking and notebook management application. It's not meant to be Scribus or QuarkExpress. Heh.
As for HTML: Markdown natively supports any HTML (and CSS) you throw at it. And so … there you go. Joplin, just like Trillium, supports HTML because Markdown supports HTML (Trillium is also markdown-based.)
Tabs: Depends on what you want to do with the tab. A tab in markdown or HTML means something different than a tab in, say, .docx. By default, if you hit the tab key, a tab is inserted into the editor. I turn off that behavior (inserts 4 spaces for me). The last time I explicitly used a tab in a document was probably 1993 or some such. Heh. I kid. Probably 2003.
Also, ">" means <blockquote> … </blockquote>. Not "indent". In fact, these two sentences are what a blockquote looks like to discourse (a markdown-based forum platform).
I'm sorry you are so frustrated, but instead of lambasting the developers because markdown was something new to you (it's been ubiquitous for a couple of decades now; hence we are typing in a markdown editor here in discourse). I don't flame the OneNote developers for choosing some proprietary format. I just avoid such limiting technology and choose something far more flexible: Markdown and Joplin.
Just trying to re-produce the problem reported. I am using the RichText Editor too, almost all the time, on a Mac.
When I go (e.g.) to the beginning of any line and hit "tab", that line is moved to the right by some 8 or 9 spaces. Isn't this what you are looking for ? And if not, why not ?
This worked always for me, in other words, this has "not been fixed" in a late version of Joplin. But you said, "In Joplin, in wysiwyg editor, this indents only bullet list. Nothing else." I cannot reproduce it.