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In addition to RTF/HTML formatting, there is a request for supporting pasting of Markdown.
In general, it is common to paste content from a variety of different formats in use. Preserving the formatting of common use scenarios would be helpful.
- Paste Markdown into Docs (currently copying from is supported) - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/50648297-paste-markdown-into-docs
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Reading the title, I almost dismissed this as it is talking about Markdown support. But when I read the request, there are several items in here that are important to me and it has a healthy amount of upvotes. So I wanted to share some thoughts... According to some of the requests, this is for offline caching and editing in addition to markdown format. And for some it is for Markdown support. I think this is actually a variety of requests, which generally get a response of "Please stick to one idea per request" from Proton (and any software development team).
To that end let's clarify which platform this is being requested for: web browser, mobile, desktop client.
- Regards offline ability. Let me be very clear, this is SUPER important to my use cases. My entire career, a significant amount of time, has been spent in environments with, at best unreliable internet. At worst none for hours of work and/or travel.
- What doesn't work at all in any offline scenario is Proton Docs and Sheets.
- In my experience, the offline experience works fine on desktops. I do edit all sorts of file formats on the desktop when the computer is offline by using the make available offline. And yes, Markdown is one of those formats.
- On mobile client, that also works, but is a horrible experience. Steps: cache on device, go offline, download file(s), edit file(s), upload file(s). Part of this is absolutely Proton's security design to prevent 3rd party apps from scanning (uploading) all files. But then again doing any serious work on a 4 inch screen is awful, so it only happens in a pinch.
- Offline browser support. For the sake of completeness there should be a clarification as to whether this request is for a desktop web browsing or mobile web browsing experience. That said, I've never seen any but the simplest "offline web browser" based application work reliably in the decades that web browsers and app developers have tried to use the browser to deliver local applications.
- The second is document format support.
- In a mobile scenario, when I think about how this applies to my use case and something that will benefit the most users, I would like to see Proton Docs and Sheets be supported offline. Also, the user experience of loading a Proton Doc/Sheet as a web app is really slow compared to the built-in PDF reader.
- In a desktop scenario, I would also like to have the ability to view/edit Proton Docs/Sheets offline.
- on the mobile platform, I would also like to see basic text editing TXT, Markdown, RTF, etc. where I can easily put together a pleasantly formatted document that I can send to someone over e-mail or another scenario that supports offline usage, yet still store it on Proton Drive without having to jump through the hoops above.
- Regarding other document formats... I'm lending my support to feature requests accelerating integration of Standard Notes.To that end, these are the specific work items on user voice that I could find for the areas of this request I broke down above. Just in case other's haven't found these and/or voted on them:
- Proton Drive offline editing support for Proton Docs - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/48610982-offline-editing-support-for-documents-in-proton-dr
- Paste Markdown into Docs (currently copying from is supported) - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/50648297-paste-markdown-into-docs
- Docs: Preserve RTF/HTML formatting on paste or load - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/51136852-docs-preserve-rtf-html-formatting-on-paste-or-l
- Support reading/editing TXT documents in Proton Drive (Mobile) - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas/suggestions/51326755-support-reading-editing-txt-documents-in-proton-drFor the folks who want Markdown ability in mobile/desktop/desktop web/desktop mobile as supported format I would suggest creating another user voice request that specifies the specific scenario and platform you want the ability to handle markdown editing. In that new user voice request link back to this suggestion so that the development team can see how many people want Markdown in general. I would also suggest adding a link to the specific scenario to this thread.
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I see this is planned. Glad you accepted this.
Please allow me to add that adding a "Link" to a URL to a specific piece of text in the box only turns that text into a hyperlink. Not the whole cell.
Please also note that this capability is already supported in Google Docs, Excel web, Excel Client, and Libre Calc. This is a request to gain parity in functionality.
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Full support for working with Markdown in docs would be very useful. I wanted to share this thread where there a quite a number of upvotes for Proton to support Markdown.
Markdown support for Drive - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/50095551-markdown-support-for-drive
Also, I think this generally falls into the category of preserving formatting on cut and paste from other popular document formats. Between PDF, Word, Google Sheets, web pages (HTML), etc, without doing extensive testing myself, there are several pretty common formats missing.
Docs: Preserve RTF/HTML formatting on paste or load - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/51136852-docs-preserve-rtf-html-formatting-on-paste-or-l