I am interested in contributing to Joplin and I was wondering if it would be feasible to incorporate the functionality of indenting text with the Tab key in the text editor of notes. Currently, the Tab key does not perform any action, and I believe that this feature would be very useful in enhancing the user experience when taking notes.
Have you considered this functionality in the past? Would it be possible to integrate it into future versions of the project? I am willing to collaborate on the implementation if it is viable.
Tab works for indentation when you're in the plain markdown mode without the preview pane. First select markdown (vs. rich text) from the button in the upper right corner of the editor. Then cycle to the plain markdown mode with another button (looking like [ | ]) in the top icon menu. Now tab doesn't jump out of the editor anymore.
For nice indentation of bullet lists just remember to make the list a proper markdown bullet list, start with " - ", not just "- ".
I'd also like to do this in the Rich Text Editor... I do not want to use Markdown and anything in MD for indents is a workaround.
I really don't understand why this is such a problem with these apps. I understand that MD doesn't support indentation, but these are reasons why people want to use Rich Text.
Why after years does of people asking for this, is it not a thing? Truely I'd like to understand why something as simple as indentation is such a hard problem to solve.