What is this obsession with block editors recently?
Everybody and their sibling is rolling out a block editor with great fanfare. They slice, they dice, they make julienne fries…
They deny the concept of plain text, nor do they use OS-level rich text support, so they’re slow. (Nimbus Note concedes the possibility of plain text, but puts it in a code block. Seriously.) They purport to be rich text but severely limit the options of rich text, which doesn’t seem to make them any faster. You can move blocks around by dragging, which… what? Saves you the step of selecting before dragging? And like any modern rich text system I’m familiar with, the formatting codes (Which are there behind the scenes. Believe me.) are hidden, making it difficult to control what formatting I want to use.
I’m sorry. Give me Markdown in whatever flavour instead.
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