But I honestly despise writing raw markdown in an IDE. If I'm writing (not coding), I need it to be somewhat visual, which means I want WYSIWYG -- and Obsidian is an excellent markdown editor, even if you don't use the other features.

My reasons for not liking writing "raw" markdown:

- Long links take up too much space. I put it in text so it'd be hidden

- No syntax highlighting in code blocks

- Text wrapping/font is typically not configured for easy reading of text

- A ton of markdown features are for visual formatting. Highlighting, bold, underline, strike-through, inline code, etc. If you stay in raw IDE no-preview, you never get the visual benefits.

- When I'm using markdown, I'm often mostly reading, and doing some writing, but even when I'm writing, I'm re-reading what I wrote constantly. It's annoying to switch to preview mode. Writing mode in IDEs isn't a pleasant reading experience unless you do a lot of configuration. (depending on the IDE of course)

I mean, writing raw md is fine for tiny little things. But because reading & writing are so linked, I don't like separate modes for each. I want to write in the visual mode I read in.