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Nice - but I wish it didn't take over the New Tab button since I use that for quick access; Since it's icon is in the status bar, why not just click on it to open a markdown tab? *Edit: Yes, I know it's in the name of the extension :-) -- just wish I could change the default.
i've been using a custom new-tab-page extension for a long time, it even comes with an integrated alarm-clock!
Why would you use markdown to take notes? Markdown is designed to be displayed as rich-text (headings, lists, etc) after authoring. If you only ever view it in plaintext as an editor, what's the point?
In fact, for certain types of greyhairs like myself, it is extremely readable in source because it is based on the conventions people used in Internet forums that didn't support rick text.
BBS's, Newsgroups, all of the social "networks" adopted a core set of syntaxes that people still use today, such as _emphasis_.
The history behind that is interesting. We started with underlines to suggest emphasis because that was something you could do on a physical typewriter: Back up and add underscores to what you'd already typed.
When typesetting arrived, we switched to italic because it's way easier to read. But _emphasis_ stayed as a way to suggest _underline_, even if we prefer to render it as italics.
There are similar stories behind other formatting choices, like
> Some quoted text
Thanks, I'll use this for entering my "three goals for the day" in the morning! (also, for those who missed it: The particle effects can be disabled in the settings.)
I am really confused on why this is useful and not any other proper-ish note taking application.
Thanks, I'll use this for entering my "three goals for the day" in the morning! (also, for those who missed it: The particle effects can be disabled in the settings.)
It's focused on short lived todo lists but also has some amazing random scenery pictures.
I've never had a more pleasant and welcoming new tab window.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfkn...
I am really confused on why this is useful and not any other proper-ish note taking application.
Rich formats like Smalltalk's images are vastly superior as long as you stay within the ecosystem. But plain text is "worse is better" at scale. You get more tools, more interoperability, more of everything.
Markdown is the plain text file winner for uncomplicated words. It's somewhat portable between a myriad of tools. When you drop into a "Better" tool like OneNote, you get all sorts of amazing wins... Provided you stay within the walled garden it provides.
Speaking as an author, I blog in markdown, I take notes in markdown, and I publish my books from markdown source for this very reason.
Heck, being able to put my books in GitHub and do pull requests is enough reason all by itself!
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If you meant, "Why a tab instead of a separate app that works with Markdown," none of what I wrote above applies. I was speaking strictly to why Markdown instead of some proprietary-format notes app.
I love this , and I wish I could use it, but I've moved to Firefox. You'd have an instant daily user right here if you released it in Firefox.
I love this , and I wish I could use it, but I've moved to Firefox. You'd have an instant daily user right here if you released it in Firefox.
I just tried and appears to work OK (Firefox 61.0.1, macOS)... since it's unsigned I loaded it as a temporary add-on in about:debugging plibither8, would you mind adding instructions to load this into Firefox in your README as well as Chrome? Also please upload to addons.mozilla.org as well as the Chrome Store. Nice work!
This seems to distill the concept down very nicely - quicker to load and straight to the point. Sadly I'd miss the structure of Moo.do but I can definitely see a world in which I'd use it - nice work.