Markdown has its place (...I think...). It is very quick to write for people who know it to jot down some basic formatted text that is very portable to different platforms and can be read/understood even in its basic text form without formatting shown.
The problem is that I don't think that many people who are not programmers actually use it - or even care to learn it. With all the WYSIWYG most people have been working with since years and decades markdown does seem antiquated to the regular user - and even to "regular" power users. So while a good case can be made for its use (think syncing with different platforms that is is way easier with pure text), I don't think that the wider audience really much cares for learning it and would rather have a true basic WYSIWYG editor that would finally be able to sync Outlook notes without destroying them if edited in MLO. I understand there has been quite some effort put into making this, but maybe the decisions to do it in the first place was flawed and influenced by programmers rather than UX designers. On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 22:47:27 UTC-7, Dale wrote: > > I think it is best to ignore the markdown, as it is more pain than it is > worth. Hard to believe in 2018 that a GUI would have markdown as the > formatting method in a program designed to make your life easier. > >> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/06d54f5e-e859-475b-90eb-07a28a81bd90%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
