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+1, I love google docs and also love markdown. If there was a shared markdown editor with the same collaborative features as google docs, i'd probably never use anything else.
Sounds a lot like something like Notion?
Why store markdown files in Google Drive of all places and not a git repository? Google Drive, to me, is object storage with a consumer-friendly user interface. It does not sound like the right place for constantly-changing text files for which you'd want revision history and commit-oriented editing.
> Why store markdown files in Google Drive of all places and not a git repository? Git diffing doesn't play nice with paragraph-based prose.
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"people who know what Markdown is" overlaps very much with "people who have to use google docs for work but would prefer a consistent editing experience". Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs, but most are also more comfortable with using markdown and use it for technical docs. I'd love to have a google docs option of creating a "simple doc", that is backed by markdown a…
+1, I love google docs and also love markdown. If there was a shared markdown editor with the same collaborative features as google docs, i'd probably never use anything else.
And then I use it on plain Markdown text in a GMail compose window. The rich formatted output it produces is useful for sending richly-formatted GMail messages, but it can also be copy-pasted into a Google Doc (e.g. via https://docs.new), and it comes out really nicely, including support for headers, sub-headers, links, code blocks, and the rest. The main issue is that this is a one-way process, but so long as you keep the .md source files somewhere else, this trick lets you share a richly-formatted doc with others for final commenting/editing/etc. in the GDocs interface.
Simple: if you make your documents in Markdown, you won't be making them in Google Docs. Stuff made in Google Docs is sticky, increases your dependence on Google, and importantly has a valuable network effect due to their collaboration features. It is in Google's best interest to encourage you to rely on their proprietary services instead of offering you alternatives that allow you to switch provider easily. Addition…
Simple: if you make your documents in Markdown, you won't be making them in Google Docs. Stuff made in Google Docs is sticky, increases your dependence on Google, and importantly has a valuable network effect due to their collaboration features. It is in Google's best interest to encourage you to rely on their proprietary services instead of offering you alternatives that allow you to switch provider easily. Addition…
"people who know what Markdown is" overlaps very much with "people who have to use google docs for work but would prefer a consistent editing experience". Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs, but most are also more comfortable with using markdown and use it for technical docs. I'd love to have a google docs option of creating a "simple doc", that is backed by markdown a…
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"people who know what Markdown is" overlaps very much with "people who have to use google docs for work but would prefer a consistent editing experience". Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs, but most are also more comfortable with using markdown and use it for technical docs. I'd love to have a google docs option of creating a "simple doc", that is backed by markdown a…
+1, I love google docs and also love markdown. If there was a shared markdown editor with the same collaborative features as google docs, i'd probably never use anything else.
They have a huge backlog of features that are catch-up to a strategically threatening disruptive competitor, and they can’t deliver those. Markdown support is below all that in priority.
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Sounds a lot like something like Notion?
Notion is very sluggish and feels very unlike a markdown file-based system to me.