Disable preview?

[Asitis]

I'm loving the app, but I have a minor request/annoyance; the preview-mode for me is not useful as I use it mostly for code snippets and plain-text notes. It would be nice to have a toggle to disable Preview, and just keep all notes open in the Editor mode.

Now I know I can set it fixed to splitscreen with Edit and Preview mode, but then the Preview mode just takes up space. I think it's a minor edit, would mean a lot to the value I find in the app!

[Rokt33r]

I agree with you. Markdown actually isn't supposed to be always rendered. So, I've thought that some one probably do not want to see preview at all.

[Rokt33r]

But, we need to think how should we present the option as UI.

[Asitis]

That's easy, I think; in the Preferences > Interface, add a checkbox under Preview and label it 'Disable preview'. Or you might edit the Toggle Mode on the Note view to give three options: Preview View, Double View, Editor View. Just my thoughts on the matter, and thank you for being open to the idea, and responding so fast!

Edit: another nice way to implement it would be to be able to select a default view in the preferences (Editor Mode, Dual Mode, Preview Mode) which all new notes start with, and then have the view-toggle with the three options be note-depended. So then users can set their note to the preferred view for each note individually :)

[hidaiy]

I am glad that the markdown editor can always display the editor mode.

If the state of the lock button displayed in editor mode is remembered like a toggle button, this problem may be solved.

This code is in WIP, but I tried saving the state of the lock button.
https://github.com/hidaiy/Boostnote/tree/develop

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[Rokt33r]

@Asitis
I think this should be enough. How do you think?

@hidaiy
Please stop working this for now. We're going to cancel the deposit of this issue. I think this issue must be discussed more.

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@Rokt33r
OK. I'll stop this work.

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[Rokt33r]

@hidaiy I'm sorry. 😢

[Asitis]

@Rokt33r; that looks good :D Maybe add an option to disable it entirely for just textual notes without need for markup?

[ehhc]

@Asitis maybe we could include a note type "Plain Text" or something like that..

[msm-code]

Hi, I just downloaded boostnote and started testing it. Overall I really like it, but I have the same problem as the author of this issue.

I find split panel very distracting, and I really prefer to always have markdown-view (preferably as default) or (rarely) rendered view. I think most markdown editors have three states - "editor", "render" and "both / split-screen". Option to completely disable preview works for me too.

Of course I know that everyone have a different needs, just wanted to share my feelings. Thanks for working on this project.

[Rokt33r]

@Asitis @ehhc
Hmm, now I've changed my mind. I think disabling preview option is quite reasonable when thinking the origin of Markdown. It's designed to present some document format in plain text.

@hidaiy
You can start to work it again. But, I think we have to append this option to Switch to Preview, in the above screenshot.

[hidaiy]

@Rokt33r
Ok I'll try 😄

[jonblack]

Why not just make the "Toggle Mode" a tri-state? Sometimes I want the preview (plant-uml for example) and other times I don't. Having to go into preferences every time would be irritating.

So in the above image, the green toggle button would have three states instead of two.

[nmearl]

Was this changed recently? I feel like a few versions ago, it was either editor view or preview view, and it was great. Now we're unable to have an editor-only view?

[reyes-c1]

I agree with it needing to be 3 state. If I'm editing I want to see split view sometimes and full editor sometimes. If I am not editing I only want to see preview. What's the point of putting all the markup in there if you never get to see the preview? I guess if you are only using it for plaintext like Asitis then that makes sense. Different people will use it differently. With 3 state people can work how they want.

[marksher]

I just came across this issue when searching for how to disable preview. It seems to be implemented now, so I just wanted to close this for anyone that comes across this in case they missed the feature like I did. #1693

[akmur]

I am not sure it is the same as described in this issue, is it? Maybe I cannot find the setting, but what I am looking for is to always see the markdown view, and optionally switch to preview mode. Is this possible already?

[Flexo013]

@Asitis Would a solution be to make the lock on editor only mode persistent when switching between notes?

@akmur This is currently not possible. #236 contains plans for implementing this.

[Flexo013]

The preview can be disabled by hitting the lock button at the top:

[yujingz]

This lock button is a pretty bad UX practice :(

[Flexo013]

@yujingz Could you elaborate on why it is bad and what we could do to improve this bad UX?

[sjtindell]

Really needed and appreciate this feature, thank you!