BijoySingh
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6 years ago Haha! I have always wondered about this myself, i dont think even I could put it better than you did.
Here's the thing though, there are wonder WYSIWYG editors out there.. Google Docs, MS word, Quip, more... and yes, they are all run by corporations but they are good. The one thing which differentiates these from Scarlet/Material Notes is that it is a notes app, not a document editor. One big side effects of WYSIWYG is that they are slow and it's almost slower to make notes on it. Which is why the formatting is "block" based by default, where you have an approximate WYSIWYG editor at a section level, but not at the core text level
Hope that rationale make sense.
Could be possible to add Wysiwyg support? The code view is a nice thing, for those who need it, but most users just want to write notes, not editing code. It seems to us rather absurd having two view modes and none of them serving for the real purpose, which is editing formatted text. The edit mode serves for editing but not for seeing the real formatted result, and the formatted view shows the real look of the notes but can't edit them. Sounds crazy, no? Would't be better to keep the code view, ok, many users like it and is a nice thing one may need to check from time to time to fix some format or rendering errors, but add those edit capabilites to the formatted view mode, so we definitely can edit our notes seeing what we are really doing?