[FR] A markup language for appflowy

[arromattic]

Description

Currently appflowy has two export option markdown and html .
Markdown has no widely accepted standard example .
Appflowy also has features that like gallery that none of the flavor's of markdown cover . Exporting as regular markdown is destructive . And for html it's not convenient either .

Suggestion 1 : Allow to export as Wikitext/mediawiki markup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext

Wikitext has way more formatting than markdown and can allow users to move or edit their note content in other apps and even in wikipedia (mediawiki)

Suggestion 2 : A custom markup language for appflowy

If it is not possible to implement export/import as wikitext a modified markdown can be created for appflowy .

Impact

1. Users can export data without losing formatting and blocks like Gallery , Image size , custom table width etc
2. Easy to import/export data
3. Easy to convert into other file formats using pandoc

Additional Context

Pandoc support if custom markup is implemented.

[LucasXu0]

@arromattic We have a JSON export mode in the experimental env, which include all document formats, such as image galleries, table widths, and more.

Here’s a sample. Does it meet your expectations?
Simple_Table_V2.1.json

[casainho]

Please no Markdown!! I came from Joplin that is good app, although Markdown makes is a junk, like tables are really basic and I think is due to limitations on Markdown.

[arromattic]

The json format is a significant improvement over plain markdown . But is rather difficult for average user to read/edit manually like wikitext . Are all the syntaxes will be specified ? like color , mathblock , italic etc . If yes i think that's most likely enough for now as users don't have to worry about missing formattings when exporting/importing .

I do think a new file format should be created and the syntaxes should be specified instead of generic json so users can easily identify it and easily convert into other format using a script or pandoc (assuming someone adds it).

1. Is it possible to import the json to appflowy ?
2. Does the json export only covers table like how notion has separate file for table and markdown for notes or includes everything in a page ?

[arromattic]

Please no Markdown!! I came from Joplin that is good app, although Markdown makes is a junk, like tables are really basic and I think is due to limitations on Markdown.

I am also a user of joplin and joplins markdown export is what made me create this issue .

In joplin there are a few markdown export problems :

1. You can adjust image size on the note but on export markdown doesn't support image size
2. You can download various plug-ins to extend the markdown but once you export , you have no idea of what you used to use .