Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor

Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by thaumaturgy on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:18PM (#36448964)

I think Obsidian's "live preview" editing mode is a great counterpoint to this. I'm pretty sure it's the first WYSIWYG editor I've ever used, in 30-odd years of computing, that hasn't pissed me off.

You type markdown, and as you go along, it renders the markdown into its presentation style: italics are italicized, links turn blue and underlined and clickable, lists become lists, and so on.

And so there certainly is a visual difference between "plain text" markdown and "rendered" markdown, but behind-the-scenes you still have a markup language that is less awful than all the other markup languages.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by arek_nawo on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:29PM (#36449123)

I'm a bit confused about that. I have heard of but haven't really tried Obsidian. How does what you're describing differs from so-called "Markdown shortcuts" (implemented in my editor and other popular ones like Notion)? You can type in most inline markdown and it's automatically converted to WYSIWYG-styled text. All these shortcuts are described here: https://docs.vrite.io/content-editor

How does it differ from Obsidian? Out of curiosity.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by philomath_mn on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:48PM (#36449356)

I think the difference is that Obsidian is 100% backed by a folder of plaintext markdown files which can be managed/viewed/edited/versioned however you like.

It's not revolutionary but I like it

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by arek_nawo on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:47PM (#36450074)

In this case, yeah. That's not my goal. However, if a "raw" preview in MD (or other format) is available and editable), plus maybe a Git integration then I think this could be on a compareable level.

Either way, seems like I'll have to check out Obsidian.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by tedmiston on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:16PM (#36452242)

> How does it differ from Obsidian? Out of curiosity.

I am not OP, but I am a heavy Obsidian user. Obsidian has 2 different editing modes [0]: "Live Preview" and "Source mode". Your implementation and Obsidian's Live Preview editing mode implementation are very similar at-a-glance; yours is a bit more interactive / "GUI-forward".

Here's an example of what Live Preview mode looks like [1].

I'm surprised how many people here like Live Preview editing mode in Obsidian though — it drives me insane constantly shifting the bits under / around my cursor... it's very distracting. I mostly use their Source mode editing mode for that reason.

That said, I did not see an equivalent of Reading view mode from Obsidian in Vrite in a few minutes of playing with it. It would be nice to see that added to prevent accidental edits when browsing a doc you don't edit to change (similar to Vim's modes).

[0]: https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Editing+and+...

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Live+preview+update

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by 111111IIIIIII on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:24PM (#36449052)

It's the only good thing about Obsidian that doesn't require dependency on some random git repo ("extension").

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