[fyfy18]

One thing I’d love is a Markdown editor that has full integration with Google Drive, like how Draw.io does. Changes are automatically saved to Drive so everyone else on your team can see them instantly. Other team members can view and edit the file in Drive just by clicking the file in Drive, they don’t need to install or sign up for anything.

A lot of web based Markdown editors let you save to and import from Google Drive, but I don’t want yet another system to manage files with.

[adzicg]

Just a note that the drive realtime interface is going away, google for some reason decided to push out third party devs from their drive platform. Building new apps that provide that feature is no longer possible since november last year, and existing apps will stop functioning in January next year.

https://developers.google.com/realtime/deprecation

[yoz-y]

It would be cool if it was possible to make a google doc text only, that would basically solve the problem as the primary goal of markdown was to read and write like a normal text file.

It would be especially nice because that way the doc could still use all the cool collaboration features.

[ronilan]

> One thing I’d love is a Markdown editor that has full integration with Google Drive,

That’s not a technical problem.

It’s a market problem, I nicknamed the “pay or pray dilemma of free software”.

To solve your problem you either:

Pay someone to build a solution on top of Google’s interfaces (Drive API/Chrome extension etc.)

- or -

Pray for Google to provide desired functionality. (Or alternatively for some indi developer to provide said functionality for no rational reason other than their own interest in the problem).

The odds of success are not evenly distributed between the two options.

[Brian_K_White]

This comment reads like a criticism, but I don't see what anyone did wrong.

It's true that to have a thing, you either have to pay for it or pray for it, or make it onesself.

But before any of that, comes discussion if what would even be a good idea or not. Why does it bother you so much that people talk about what they would like?

Some developers actually want users to discuss what they would like, in order to know what to take a chance on building.

Also, it's a perfectly "rational reason" to build something to provide to the world, when you realize just how much you benefit from the world of things other people have built and given away already.

In fact, what is not very rational, is advertising that you don't consider it rational to contribute to community efforts.

[ronilan]

Brian, you are reading it wrong.

That was an observation.

And specifically you are reading the term “no x other than y” wrong.

It actually means x is an attribute of y, or a group, and y is of importance. As in “no player other than LeBron”

It was used in this context in a way similar to “We should send humans to Mars for no rational reason other than to prove that it is technically possible”.

Thus, this comment has no rational reason other than to set the record straight.