It just clicked; I can not stand block based editing. I’ve been looking for a replacement for Bear Notes (love Bear but the combination of paying for access to my own iCloud and my eventual desire to switch off of Mac is necessitating some changes). Shopping around I stumbled across a sleek promising looking app I was almost sold then I realized I wasn’t looking at markdown. Then came the dreaded line “block based editor” nooo! I find block based editing to be so cumbersome and brittle. Blocks are always flowing into one another, any time I want formatting I have to open some weird command pallet.
Their sleek, I’ve flirted with Notion many times over the years, but I always come away feeling like I’m playing with a toy rather rather than a workhorse. Gutenberg, WordPress’s block editor, has made editing content on WP an incredibly joyless experience it’s no wonder most installs I’ve seen have some plugin to disable it.