No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by SahAssar on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:27AM (#36467082)

"people who know what Markdown is" overlaps very much with "people who have to use google docs for work but would prefer a consistent editing experience". Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs, but most are also more comfortable with using markdown and use it for technical docs.

I'd love to have a google docs option of creating a "simple doc", that is backed by markdown and only supports the basics (headers, paragraphs, lists, maybe tables) and have a WYSIWYG for non-tech people and a (maybe git-based?) workflow for people used to markdown.

Something like what azure devops and github does with their wikis.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by watwut on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:29AM (#36467098)

Yes, pretty much this. I use Sharepoint and teams because I have to, not because I would think they are good or because I liked them. Sharepoint in particular is horrible, Teams are only slightly better.

I want markdown on sharepoint.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by aquaticsunset on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:40AM (#36467604)

Try Loop, if your organization has been enabled for it. It's exactly what people here are wishing Google Drive had.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by noisy_boy on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:01AM (#36467300)

> Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs

I think there is another sizable set which heavily uses wiki. At my work, most people use it (a very small set of people use SharePoint for mainly PowerPoint or formatting heavy docs).

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by SahAssar on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:08AM (#36467360)

Are those devs not ever collaborating with non-tech people on documents? Also when you say wiki, do you mean a mediawiki instance or the ones included in things like github?

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by danielvaughn on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:22AM (#36467453)

+1, I love google docs and also love markdown. If there was a shared markdown editor with the same collaborative features as google docs, i'd probably never use anything else.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by hiddew on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:27AM (#36469229)

We use Slite extensively at work. Works pretty well to quickly create/edit documents with a nice editor. When you type Markdown, the content automatically resolves the styling/headers/lists. Multiple persons editing a document at the same time is (of course) supported. And every document can be exported as Markdown or PDF.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by indymike on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:43AM (#36469399)

Sounds a lot like something like Notion?

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by SahAssar on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:12PM (#36469761)

Notion is very sluggish and feels very unlike a markdown file-based system to me.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by danielvaughn on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:35PM (#36470725)

Agreed, I like certain aspects of Notion, but as a FE dev myself, I think what they’re trying to do is too complex. I don’t see how they could ever make it performant.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by fastball on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:07PM (#36469700)

Notion doesn't use Markdown.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by indymike on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:18PM (#36469817)

Just type in markdown :-). It mostly works for input.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by fastball on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:48PM (#36474773)

Sure, you can add asterisks around things and it will convert stuff to bold, etc, but Notion isn't actually a markdown-based app – the underlying representation of a Notion doc is stored as JSON.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by mholm on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:31PM (#36469961)

Product with corporate lock-in, but Quip allows the user to use markdown in their documents, and export their documents into Markdown.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by sharma-arjun on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:02PM (#36470317)

Dropbox Paper should meet your requirements. I tried switching to it a few years ago, but the problem is that the other people I'm collaborating with always want to use Google Docs, and when I'm writing a document by myself, I'd much rather just write to a local file.

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Re:No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years by grumblepeet on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:57PM (#36470260)

SharePoint pages can now be created with Markdown BTW. There is a Markdown web part out of the box. Not so sure how Markdown files themselves are handled though, pretty badly I suspect.

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