I often need to convert rich text copied from websites or Word/odt documents to Markdown, and sometimes vice versa. Is there an open source Markdown editor that lets me simultaneously paste in and edit a document both as WYSIWYG and Markdown source code? Preferably side by side.

I’ve actually been using the Reddit redesign’s Markdown editor for this, since it lets me switch between a WYSIWYG text box and a Markdown source code editor, but that’s obviously not at all a good option.

  • m3adow
    4•10 months ago

    Huh? Nearly every editor can do this. For work, I use Visual Studio Code for that, maybe you additionally need a Markdown Extension, but I’m pretty sure it works out of the box.

  • @BaconSoftware
    3•10 months ago

    Obsidian let’s you edit with a preview version next to the source version, or even edit the source inline whilst the rest of the document remains as WYSIWYG.

    • macniel
      7•10 months ago

      Obsidian is cool yeah. But it ain’t open source.

  • Xylight (Photon dev)
    2•10 months ago

    Oh boy a 3 year old post is being put in people’s feeds. There needs to be a warning for old posts

  • @lehenry
    1•10 months ago

    I use Joplin which is rather complete, by default it shows wysiwyg, but you can display both.

    There are many plug-ins as well, for example to paste Excel/CSV as markdown tables.