Card notes: Should they be Markdown and "Preview mode" and only save Markdown?

[cdevroe]

My initial idea for Signboard was that the Card notes area would be a rich-editing experience that is simply HTML output (ala Notion, etc.) but without the need for slash commands (e.g. /list). So, if you want a list you'd just move to a new line, type "- " and Signboard would know you're starting a list and create one. So while the data that is saved is in Markdown, the view and editing experience would always be "preview mode".

But I'm guessing that some would like that some wouldn't? It also makes Signboard fairly complex the more HTML elements we support the creation of. I started playing around with this in #9. My gut says we'd need headings, ordered and unordered lists, check lists (which aren't an HTML element, but a Markdown thing), links, bold, italics. That's likely about it?

Then I ran across OverType via Ross Wintle on Mastodon. It is a very small library that makes editing Markdown in a textarea rather nice and simple. Signboard could just allow editing raw Markdown and be much more simple than needing a preview and handling all of the "smarts" of as-you-type replacements.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?

[cdevroe]

For now, we're going with Markdown edited in OverType. I may end up needing to contribute to, or fork, OverType for my needs but it is an excellent starting point.