Markdown live preview for Zotero6' notes is a new feature, but we also need edit raw markdown freely

ictwjw

The notes of Zotero6 can render markdown in real time, and this is a fantastic feature.

But we can't read the markdown source content or edit the mardown note freely. This is not unfriendly to markdown users.

It is very essential to set an option button in the notes that coulud allow the markdown users to choose live render mode or raw contents edit mode freely.

dstillman

But we can't read the markdown source content or edit the mardown note freely.

Because it's not a Markdown editor. It's an enhanced rich-text editor with embedded metadata that enables various dynamic functionality around annotations and citations. It just supports Markdown syntax for triggering various rich-text features.

If you want to use a Markdown editor, use a Markdown editor. That's why Zotero supports Markdown export of notes. But that export is necessarily lossy, because Markdown can't represent everything the note editor supports.