Feature Idea: documentation, not only the boards

[alexander-potemkin]

Summary

Is there any foreseen expectation for the documentation support, like Notion does (not just the trello boards)?

How important this is to me and why

It's very important, because we use to document everything in Notion.so and do the tickets only when things needs to be planned; having texts and boards in a different services doesn't really help =(

To say an awful thing: we start to use a simple lists and comment things in there - making documentation in a form of discussion how we did things this week.

Additional context/similar features

Right now we use Notion documents, with header 2 for the week spring and the lists, comments, text strike, etc to update things. It works only well with complete page history.

[chenilim]

Thanks @alexander-potemkin! Currently, each card supports markdown text content, images, checklists, and dividers. We expect to expand this in the future. How well does the markdown editor fit your current needs, and where are the gaps? E.g. you could create a single card as a mini document or note, then add it as markdown.

The editor uses GitHub flavored markdown, which supports basic formatting like lists, checklists, etc.

[alexander-potemkin]

Markdown is Ok. The main problem is that 95% of my project documents are not the cards - they are pages. I understand that on the programmatic level it's not that different, but on the level of perception the difference is dramatic - that's why I posted an issue, asking to add pages presentation.

Once pages implementation & page changes history (not in Notion way - that's clumsy, but more like GitHub commits), I will start switching my projects there.

Does it makes sense, @chenilim ?

[Cyber-Syntax]

If I understood correctly, you are talking about adding the page editing in joplin to the focalboard. I'm looking forward to getting this feature, too.

The feature that enables Notion to be used so much is that it consists of board and table views adapted(!) from the focalboard. If you bring the feature of adding pages as a focalboard instead of just the board logic, it will be sufficient to use only the focalboard as our second brain :).

Of course, in order to do this, I think you will need to use block, not just markdown.As a more explicit suggestion, I would say to be able to add focalboard tables to pages.