[jamesrat]

There are a few elements missing that I would really love to see. Mostly native image upload support and embedding. Live Markdown preview WYSIWYG editor.

http://texts.io/ Came close.

I really hope that this project will develop into something better.

[divbit]

I will comment my hackable note-taking app (which has image upload paste) in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/divbit/grimoire

currently supports image paste -> embedding (this was a crucial feature for me as well) and notes in markdown, latex, html, inline javascript (so you can do a note with some d3 or whatever).

I decided to not do live markdown preview because the save feature is fairly quick, and it gives more space on the page for editing on my small screen.

[rspeer]

What I'm hoping for is self-previewing Markdown -- where you use the equivalent of syntax highlighting to approximate how the Markdown will be rendered. Lines starting with # are bigger, links are links, and so on. Bullets don't even need to be changed, except possibly in color.

The split-pane approach, with one Markdown pane and one WYSIWYG pane, is such a waste of screen space, when self-previewing Markdown is all you need if you're not trying to create a published document.

A former Show HN project, bluedocs.io, offered this by default. But now it's defunct (and my notes are lost with it).

[jeffsco]

You could check out Typora: https://typora.io

[rspeer]

Nice. That is exactly the approach to editing I want, especially in Source Code Mode.

Of course, it's only an editor for local documents. I wonder if this could be glued to Standard Notes as a backend somehow.

[dr_hooo]

If you're on Mac you can have a look at the excellent MacDown (http://macdown.uranusjr.com/) - which is also open source.

[djhworld]

Wow that texts.io looks really cool!

Doesn't look like it supports tagging/searching and organising notes though (correct me if I'm wrong)

[jamesrat]

It's a basic markdown application with live Markdown editing. No tagging supported (or image uploads/embeds).

Sadly it's closed source and cost $19/user.

[eps]

So $19 for a well-executed piece of software makes you sad?

[favadi]

Maybe the close sourced aspect worries him more.