Markdown support
We all need the key feature, which is Docs and Sheets support, but in the meantime would be also nice to deliver markdown support to be able to create it directly in the drive and export it to PDF for example. I guess that most of cases people need to create some kind of statements or easy documents and export them, and it could be done just with markdown integration as we can see with HackMD or Obsidian and other. From my point of view, it's a trade-off between developer complexity and user usability.
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Anonymous commented
Related: I should be able to paste markdown-formatted text and have it automatically converted to the appropriate document styling. e.g. copying the following and pasting it into a Proton doc should not paste it literally with the # characters, but instead convert the first line to the “title” style and the second line to the “heading 1” style.
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# Document## Sub-heading
An introduction.
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YourName commented
This is essential for writing documents quickly, and also for technical writers who want to collaborate. There should be a wysiwyg mode and a markdown mode for docs
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Adelf commented
Definitely a great idea! Online Markdown support would be great and, after all, "casual" users aren't forced to use it.
That's said, I think it would be a good way to attract developers and techy people :D
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uservoice.72zxk commented
I love the new Doc support in Drive. However, I don't like that opening a markdown file creates a new Doc file. (For example, hello_world.md when opened in Docs creates a new file called hello_world, which results in me having two copies to maintain of the same file).
I think a simple solution could be to allow an option for "Edit as Markdown in Docs" or something.
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Rene Rasmussen commented
Markdown would be super. Especially as it looks like the new document implementation is using it behind the scene. (you can download markdown file)
It should be fairly easy to add a "edit source" button in the toolbar. -
Kyle Downey commented
This is the *biggest* thing that I miss switching from Skiff to Proton -- I exported and uploaded the MD files from Skiff Drive, but in-line editing was super-useful and IMHO is a good 80-20 solution vs. something heavyweight like Notion
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arek commented
Totally agree. Markdown support + some basic Notion-like structure for Notes creation and organising. I'd love to be able to share a link to my Drive with anyone where they can simply open the document directly, without a need to download it.