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by reacharavindh 1812 days ago
We use Dropbox Paper for team documents(not source code documentation). I actually like it.

The thing that makes MarkDown documents less appealing is the inability to handle images seamlesslessly(drag and drop). Most of the time, our documents involve images to explain stuff. Uploading them somewhere, and then manually adding a tag and correctly copy/paste the url in MD makes it less appealing that just drag & drop an image in a WYSIWYG editor and spending the focus on _documentation_.

What I’d like is a MArkDown Editor that also simply allows me to drag and drop images and it should handle uploading and linking the images transparently.

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> What I’d like is a MArkDown Editor that also simply allows me to drag and drop images

Have a look at Typora [0]. It's my main Markdown editor for this reason (and others).

[0] https://typora.io/

Funny enough the GitHub file/issue editing UI handles drag and drop image uploading really well.
Check this free markdown WYSIWYG editor https://marktext.app/. I guess it is inspired by Typora which is the first I saw. It is very impressive. Not sure about the image drag and drop. That is app specific.

I wished we had that for ASCIIDoc because it looks more powerful than the half backed Markdown.