I’ve been trying it out more extensively for the last few hours, and I already noticed that I’ve developed an aversion to clicking on individual notes and editing them because the layout changes so drastically between the markup and the rendered version. As a concrete example, I have a to-do list item that looks like this:
As soon as I click on it, it suddenly becomes
For some reason this shift feels really jarring to me, and I’ve started to actively avoid selecting notes that have any kind of fancy markup in them. The same problem occurs with references to other pages, and a lot of other parts of Roam’s fancy markup.
Not really sure what the best way of dealing with this is. Maybe switch towards a full WYSIWYG editor, though that obviously comes with its own costs.
We do plan to eventually switch to wysiwyg—it’s much faster for our feature development to not for now, but when we’re out of beta that’ll be one of first changes we make
Random user feedback for Roam:
I’ve been trying it out more extensively for the last few hours, and I already noticed that I’ve developed an aversion to clicking on individual notes and editing them because the layout changes so drastically between the markup and the rendered version. As a concrete example, I have a to-do list item that looks like this:
As soon as I click on it, it suddenly becomes
For some reason this shift feels really jarring to me, and I’ve started to actively avoid selecting notes that have any kind of fancy markup in them. The same problem occurs with references to other pages, and a lot of other parts of Roam’s fancy markup.
Not really sure what the best way of dealing with this is. Maybe switch towards a full WYSIWYG editor, though that obviously comes with its own costs.
I also had a similar experience. (I’ve been trying to push past it, and probably will succeed, but it was a bit of an impediment)
We do plan to eventually switch to wysiwyg—it’s much faster for our feature development to not for now, but when we’re out of beta that’ll be one of first changes we make
You could benefit greatly by putting in a stop-gap: add css transitions, so the change doesn’t feel so abrupt.