I find when I’m creating a wikilink in DTTG by clicking on a link in square brackets I immediately want to edit the document, but I must select “EDIT” each time to get started. Is there a setting for this by any chance?
I see you already have a setting to “Open in Edit mode” for annotations.
Thanks,
David
No, there is no setting for this.
I have been trying to use wikilinks in DTTG 4 and the workflow is quite inefficient. You cannot create a wikilink unless you’re in Edit mode. But you can’t click a wikilink to go to or create the linked document unless you’re in Read mode so I find I have to toggle back and forth very frequently. Then, once you get to the document you’d like to edit, you have to click to enter EDIT mode because you start out in Read mode by default. I really don’t understand the rationale for a Read mode for Mark Down and Plain Text documents at all. On the Mac side you’d never assume you couldn’t immediately edit a text document when you open it. Not complaining, just telling you my use case.
Thanks!
It lets you render a nicely formatted document, applying whatever CSS styling you wish. I very much enjoy it! There are many markdown editors. Few if any let you read your documents in the same rich way as DEVONthink.
The Read mode is exactly as @troejgaard mentioned: the rendered view of the document’s styled text. That’s the intended purpose for Markdown.
Also, when people were beta testing DEVONthink To Go, the majority of those participating wanted an explicit Edit button on documents. They didn’t want to chance accidental edits. That included not allowing a tap on the content to be edited.
I forgot to mention: on mac, there is actually a setting for the default display of markdown documents. And my default is indeed read mode 
(“Preview Documents”) But the keyboard shortcuts for read/edit are deeply ingrained muscle memory, so I switch between them instantly.