"Best Alternative View" for Markdown entries

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I also use DEVONthink for note taking. They are written in plain text, mainly Markdown. DEVONthink Pro has a good support for this with its “Best Alternative View”. I tested this with DTTG and in opposite to DTPro it lacks a few features which I would like to see supported:

  1. Metadata at the top of the document is not hidden.

  2. The value for a metadata key is not substituted in the body of the document. The syntax for this is ```

[%key]


3. Image links with a DEVONthink item link (to a database entry with an image) are not substituted with the image (e.g. ```

![alt-text](x-devonthink-item://xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx)

``` does not render the image and only shows a placeholder at the moment).

All three points work nicely in DTPro so it would be great to have them in DTTG, too.
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How is “metadata at the beginning of the document” encoded?

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I’m not quite sure what you mean by “encoded”. I’m referring to http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/metadata.html

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Ah I see. Our Markdown viewer is currently compatible to the original Markdown documentation. We are currently reading ourselves into what it needs to correctly support MultiMarkdown too.

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DEVONthink Pro and DEVONthink To Go seem to have different Markdown viewers implemented, because the 3 points of my intial post work fine on the Mac, but not on iOS. Of course a full MultiMarkdown implementation would be absolutely fantastic.

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Thank you for adding all the 3 points of my initial post to the new version 2.0.4 of DEVONthink To Go :smiley:

You people are incredible!

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Thanks for the kind words. We are always working on making things better. :smiley: