Markdown notes/wiki program with specific requirements

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I am looking for something to use for my personal wiki/notes platform.

Requirements:

  1. Markdown format editing
  2. Live preview of the rendered markdown that scrolls in time with the raw markdown
  3. Spell checking
  4. FOSS
  5. Either web-based or has synchronization and is available on Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android/Linux, although multiple clients and a sync service would ok but not ideal.

I wouldn’t think these would be too hard to meet, but I have not found anything that works well.

Joplin- No spell checking
Bookstacks- No spell checking in markdown mode
Wiki.js- No spell checking of the raw markdown.
Notepad++ - No linux or android support, markdown live preview does not stay in sync, requires external sync service.
VSCodium- No android version, requires external sync service, markdown preview was not staying in sync consistently.
Atom- No android version, requires external sync service, markdown live preview does scroll with raw.
MediaWiki- No markdown support (plugin dead)
DocuWiki- No live preview with markdown plugin
Remarkable- No windows version (yet), requires external sync service.

Does anyone have recommendations for other options? Or am I missing something about one of the options I looked at?

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AFAIK this remains a gap in the FOSS catalog. I think ideally it is a nextcloud app because that takes care of the web-based/synchronizing part, but I don’t know of a project that meets your requirements.

I would also use it if it existed.

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I mean, some of these are SOO close, all they need is spell checking.

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Yeah I think Joplin is probably the closest. Tbh, it’s almost like you want a stripped down version of discourse that just keeps notes instead of multiuser forum.

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Actually, you know… That’s not a bad idea.

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That would be a pretty great fork imo.

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The root cause of problem with bookstack, wiki.js, and possibly other platforms is that they use Code Mirror, which does not have spell checking support.

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https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/

Markdown is text. Sync with Git and gain version control, too. :stuck_out_tongue:

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That does look promising.

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Joplin?

It’s the note taking app of true intellectuals.

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No synchronization of the live preview to the raw markdown, feature requests for it closed as won’tfix: one and two. Also, the maintainer is not accepting pull requests for anything but translations, and seems well, really burnt out is about the kindest way I could put it.

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Thats what Im doing too. VS code has good markdown support with live preview. Im sure you can install a spell checker of some kind.

I did not bother because who cares. My notes you dont have to be able to read them I have to be able to read them. :stuck_out_tongue:

Also all my spell checkers are always super confused what language Im supposed to write. Some things are german, some things are english. Depends on the topic…

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What extension are you using? It was refusing to work well for me.

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None, just right click preview and splitscreen. All works without extensions.

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Huh, that actually works way better than the extension I had installed did. When I looked at previously, I didn’t find native preview support, so I either missed it or it was added in.

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To add to the list of possibilities
https://zim-wiki.org/index.html.

It does not tick all the requirements.

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Thanks for the recommendation, but I’m only interested in markdown based formatting.

The big reason is that my website, this forum, and a number of other places use markdown. So then I can draft somewhere else, and pretty much copy and paste.

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*Every site that is not Turdpress or Jira

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Which is why jira is objectively shit.

If you can’t even have proper markdown support in the Year of our Lord 2020, I can’t consider you a valid option.

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If you don’t need it to be stored as Markdown… In the preferences of zim-wiki there is a setting called ‘default formatting for copying text to the clipboard’ with the option Markdown (pandoc). Or export.

Not trying to push or convert. Zim-wiki is on my list as a possible tool and I had a look in the application help file because of curiosity.