Markdown Practical Tips – Editor (Typora)

Amway Objects is a Markdown editor, one of the simplest and most elegant that President 1 has ever seen. Let’s take a look at its interface:

The interface is very simple, with a variety of themes to choose from, and more importantly, the preview and edit interface are integrated, rather than left and right, as is the case with other editors.

As can be seen from the above example, its input mode supports a variety of, whether manual input grammar or use of shortcut keys, are very smooth, real-time effect changes can be seen, in addition to Typora has many advantages.

The advantages of Typora

• Preview and edit interface integrated.
• Powerful keyboard shortcuts.
• Compatible with common extension syntax.
• HTML compatibility (new version has been improved).
• Supports YAML format.
• Support for formula editing (LaTeX formulas).
• Tables and code blocks are easy to edit.
• Support local image relative link.
• Support to drag local images into the edit page.
• Supports multiple export formats (PDF, HTML, Word, LaTeX, etc.).
• There are many themes to choose from.

Although the above content can also be seen in other editors, but do so perfect is not many, want to try partners to try it, I believe you will also love it.

Click here to go to Typora’s official website

Since Typora is so good, why not recommend it in the first place? This is because when the first Markdown article was published, Typora had a few minor flaws (HTML syntax compatibility) that didn’t please the chairman, so it was just put on the top of the list. After a recent update, This part has been repaired and perfected, almost perfect, so I wrote a special article to recommend the president.

Typora is available on WIndows, Linux, and Mac. If you’re using a Mac, congratulations. In addition to the advantages mentioned above, you can use some of the Mac benefits.

Version backtracking

This is a small feature provided by the Mac system. You may notice a small detail when using the Mac. When editing text in the system text editor, you will never be prompted to save the text, even if you do not click save and exit immediately after editing. You might think it’s just an autosave feature, but what’s the big deal?

Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t want to give up saving the content after editing for a long time and continue to use the previous content? This is easy to achieve on Windows, as long as you don’t manually save the content when editing, you directly click close and do not save, and when you open it again, the previous content will be edited.

On the Mac, if you close the Command and then open it again, clicking Command + Z will not work.

As a sentient operating system, it is not unaware of this problem, but it provides a more powerful method, version backtracking, which is equivalent to an automated Git system, which is awesome.

Trpora also uses this feature, which you can see by going To File > Revert To > Browse All Versions. Take, for example, a post I posted earlier:

In the figure above, the left is the current version, the right is the selected version, and the most right is the timeline. Using this function, the article can be traced back to any point in time. My mother is no longer afraid of my article content loss, and successfully avoided the following situation

Since this function is provided by the Mac system, it works not only for plain text, but also for iWork. IWork also has version backtracking for key, numbers, and Pages. Click File > Restore > Browse all versions to see the data saved in the past.

Of course, that’s just one of the perks.

Easier way to insert and upload pictures

Markdown is known to be a big problem when it comes to inserting images, especially when it comes to local editing, but this is getting easier with Typora.

For local images, we can just drag them in, no need to remember complicated syntax and look up the address of the image, yes, just drag them in, Typora will automatically recognize the image and insert.

However, there is a problem, many of our articles are to be published, this method may look fine locally, but uploading to the website will not read the local image, usually the solution is to upload to the map bed, and then insert the link into Markdown, so that publishing is fine.

But when an article need to insert a lot of pictures, upload again and again, and copy the link, paste, again and again is very troublesome, although there are some scripts can be uploaded through keyboard shortcuts, but after a few more steps, is not very convenient, but also to the novice is not very friendly, what’s more, many beginners don’t know what is so-called figure bed.

IPic is a professional imagebed management tool. It seems that it has not been out for a long time. Currently, the free version can only be uploaded to Weibo imagebed.

So, no, we’re still using the chart bed?

However, Typora’s convenience is that it can be seamlessly integrated with iPic, which is pure dumb one-click operation, and can upload all local images of articles to the map bed at once.

First install iPic, run iPic, then clickEdit > Image Tools > Upload Local Images via iPicJust like this.

If this is still too much of a hassle, there is an option to automatically upload local images to the server when they are inserted. Of course, to protect your privacy, this option is turned off by default. First you need to go to the preferences and clickTypora > PreferencesOr shortcut keysCommand + ,Either way, open the following two options, one of which will be used later.

Open and selectEdit > Image Tools > When Insert Local Images > Upload Image via iPicIt means that local images are automatically uploaded to the server via iPic when they are inserted.

Although this scheme is convenient, but the president does not recommend everyone to do so, mainly it is not safe, if misoperated, some personal photos may be uploaded.

The author recommends another solution, Copy Image File to Folder. The operation steps are similar to the above. It means that local images are automatically archived to a Folder when they are inserted and uploaded uniformly after the article is edited by clicking the upload button.

• Security, not because of misoperation will involve privacy photos to the server.
• Equivalent to the automatic establishment of a local picture files, convenient backup preservation.
• If an image is lost on the map bed, it can be quickly recovered and restored from a local backup.

This concludes Typora’s recommendations for now. For more information about Typora, see Support. See the previous article for more on Markdown:

Markdown Practical Tips – Quick Start Markdown Practical Tips – Basic Syntax Markdown practical tips – links and images

conclusion

Finally, a little personal advice, I think Typora in addition to simple interface, the biggest advantage is convenient shortcut keys, however, there are so many shortcut keys, do you want to remember specifically?

My personal advice is not to memorize these shortcut keys exclusively. When you use them, open the menu to see what the shortcut keys are, and then press them out with the shortcut keys. In this way, after using them for several times, you will naturally remember the commonly used shortcut keys, and remember them very firmly.

Download the two software addresses mentioned in this article:

Typora

iPic

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