I think this topic deserves a discussion thread all of its own, rather than the useful feedback getting lost in the MLO5 public beta announcement thread. I've pasted a link to this in a discussion on the beta forum, so that the developers don't miss your comments.
The advantages of Markdown are supposed to be that it's quick and lightweight and that the format codes don't get in the way of reading the plain text - underlining of headings still looks like underlining a heading. bold and italic emphasis looks like the emphasis characters that someone would use when writing a text message. I was involved in some beta forum discussions about whether note formatting could be applied and whether Markdown might be a simple, lightweight way to provide that. It's interesting to see some of these challenges from the rest of the MLO community. One last note: For *converting *between Markdown and other formats (eg pasting your MLO notes into Word), there are various free tools on the web. Try things like Pandoc (a stand-alone multi-format converter) <https://www.mscharhag.com/software-development/pandoc-markdown-to-pdf> or Writage (a Markdown conversion plugin for Word) <https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/microsoft-word-can-favorite-markdown-editor/>. If you don't want to install any third party plugins, you can also use an online converter, like CloudConvert <https://cloudconvert.com/md-to-docx>. Hope that helps. Stéphane On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 18:18:57 UTC+1, Frank wrote: > > The ability to format text was one of the most wanted features since the > beginning of MLO. Now MLO 5 offers (kind of) this long awaited future. But > i don´t get it. Learning kind of HTML to format text? Really? Markdown was > designed to write for the web. Why should you use it in a taskmanager? > > *Here my first impression, questions:* > > - You have constantly to switch from Edit View to Preview. Who want´s > that? > - How do i change the textsize in Preview? It´s much to small on my > high DPI monitors > - Can i use charts and colour? > - Can i import formatted text? > - Which Markdown commands are supported? Where is the documentation? > - How do i copy formatted text to use in another application? > - How do i copy text to use in another application at all? Shoud i > manually delete all markdown code? > - How can in change the background colour. It looks like what ever you > set in themes has no effect, right? > > > Am i the only one who thinks that this was the most cumbersome way > possible to integrate text formatting options in MLO? > A simple editor like the one here to write this post would habe been > useful but this is a major disapointment. Sorry i can´t share the euphoria. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/b9f94370-e8cf-4dcf-90bd-db529cb842cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
