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DoctorBrown
3 years agoOccasional Contributor
General comments about Markdown.
I may be a little late to the party and so far haven't tried to use it. I, of course, don't know all the history and logic behind where it's at, but here goes.
Having an editor that can handle for...
TauChrisTx
3 months agoNew Contributor
Some sort of WYSIWYG editor/plug-in/widget is still lacking! This issue was first raised at least three years ago, and we've seen no progress.
Just consider the workflow if you are trying to put a small table of info into your secure note. At present, the only option to create something that looks like a table is to use preformatted text of some sort. But, the default font for displaying note text while editing is a variable-width font. So, in editing mode, because there is no WYSIWYG support, you are forced to add/edit raw markdown text, then hit "Save" to see what you got, then try to remember by visual scanning how many spaces you were off on any given row/column, then hit "Edit" again to go tweak the spacing, then hit "Save" to see if you got it right, then hit "Edit" again to address spacing problems on another line or two, then..... etc, etc, etc, etc,..... until you are done. The back and forth is tedious and deeply frustrating. Even for a fairly small table of 3 columns with less than 10 rows, it can take dozens of iterations to get the formatting right! The only other option you have is to create the pre-formatted text in some other editor, and then paste it into 1password. But that's not always a reasonable option-- consider the case where you are on a mobile device, and do not have access to another device to do the editing you need to do!
I chose to use the task of entering a small table as an example because it seems like the perfect storm, and it's a fairly common task. But it's true for most any markdown you use -- for example, if you are trying to bold something and you accidentally hit the wrong number of "*" characters on one side or the other, you can't see the mistake you made until you hit "Save". Then you have to remember where the mistake is, hit "Edit", correct the mistake, and hit "Save" again to be sure you got it right.
This community forum obviously supports some form of basic markdown, and has a basic formatting toolbar to assist -- and displays formatted text as you enter it. The 1Password app (on all platforms!) should support something similar, even if it's stripped down a bit.
Do you use Jira internally? Tools like that have a way to switch back and forth between "Text" mode, where you view/edit raw markdown text, and a "Visual" mode where you can view/edit the formatted text. That'd be an okay way to do it-- even if the "Visual" mode was just a "Preview".
Supporting cutting/pasting of formatted texts between applications (on the desktop applications, anyway) would also be welcome-- but let's walk before we run. It's pointless to consider formatted cut/paste if you can't even SEE formatted text while you are editing it in 1Password.
PLEASE, for the love of all your users, add this to your development docket and give it a few hundred +1s on behalf of all the users that have been frustrated by this for 3+ years!
1P_Dave
Moderator
3 months agoThank you for the passionate feedback! I've passed your feature request along to our product team for consideration.
We're currently testing a WYSIWYG editor for the Snippets feature that we're testing in Labs (on the Mac) and it's possible that similar functionality could be introduced for Secure Notes in the future:
-Dave
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