Markdown support

[Riajyuu]

Why didn't we think of this before?

[digimezzo]

This is an excellent idea. I actually wanted to add markdown support for version 2.0, but never created the issue for it. My plan is to keep support for the "old" note format, for those migrating from version 1.x. But also to have the ability to use markdown. There will probably be 2 ways of creating notes (I'm still brainstorming on that):

• RichText note
• Markdown note

[Riajyuu]

@digimezzo Two more questions:

1. are we enforcing strict markdown? (always require a space after #, for example )
2. how should we process source code & markdown render view?
   1. Typora-way: instantly show render result
   2. VSC & Atom way: separate source code and render result into two windows.

[digimezzo]

I don't know yet about strict markdown. I didn't even know there is a strict and non-strict markdown. About the view, I thought about using 2 panes: left = code, right = result. Code pane can be collapsed when not editing. This is still brainstorming though. Anything can happen.

[Pete-Latham]

Was going to log markdown support as a feature request but glad I checked the list first. I only found out about Knowte today!

One note taking app that handles markdown well, especially the code handling, is MedleyText. Perhaps this could be a source of 'inspiration'? I much prefer Knowte's interface and way it organises the notes, though. Definitely going to watch this project going forward.