Suggestion: Open in external editor

[facetheheat]

It would be great to edit notes in external editor.

[ylian]

I don't get what you mean. The notes are JSON files. You can edit them in a text editor if you like, but that won't be convenient. Or are you using Markdown only?

[facetheheat]

I'm using .txt and .md notes. I write notes in nvALT and Typed. I'm switching to Quiver now. I want to edit notes in external editor [Typed, iAWriter, Byword, etc], but I want to store all notes in Quiver. It would be great to add shortcut [CMD-Shift-E, for example] to open current note with markdown syntax in external editor.

[facetheheat]

Edit json files is not convenient

[ylian]

I see. It makes sense if you only use Markdown. I am considering adding a Markdown note type to Quiver, so I can probably let you edit a Markdown note in an external editor. I see no reason why not.

I do have one question: how do you store images or attachments with your previous system? If I add the support for opening a note in an external editor, the image URLs need to work.

[facetheheat]

For notes with images I've used Evernote. But I successfully import all notes into Quiver :) So, the external editor should works only for markdown(or plaintext) only notes. For notes with multiple cell types external editor not needed. Thanks!

[ylian]

Thanks. Quiver's Markdown cells let you insert images and they will be copied to the note. But that's okay, I will figure out a solution to the URL issue (it's using a special syntax quiver-image-url/{imageId} so external editors won't be able to load).

I agree this should only apply to the Markdown note type.

[glushchenko]

+1

[ghost]

+1

[paulelms]

+1

[juev]

+1

[stefanotto]

+1

[jkjelsbak]

+1

[tomleim]

+1

[chaoxu]

+1