However, finally I realized that Coda has no Markdown support - it merely has some keyboard shortcuts that may help people coming from Markdown. Markdown is a strict specification that defines exactly how the markup should be parsed. Supporting Markdown would mean that it should behave as Markdown markup behaves, it should be possible to switch between Markdown and WYSIWYG editing, or atleast copy&paste in Markdown.
Hi @Nuutti_Kotivuori1, thanks for your feedback. We prioritized enabling a core set of markdown shortcuts as you type before adding copy/paste support, as that’s what our customers had most frequently requested. Since some of the engineering work is separate, we didn’t want you to have to wait until we can offer complete support including copy/paste before benefitting from some of the common cases.
Beyond copy/paste, do you have examples of specific behaviors you’d expect to be different?
If it is a work in progress, then that’s great to hear.
My use case is actually pretty simple - I want to use Coda as a CMS-lite for a website that uses Markdown as markup (or actually it uses Gatsby so I can implement any markup I want). Initially, users should be able to copy&paste event descriptions from Coda to the website - but ultimately the Markdown format should be available via API so the whole process can be automated fully.
Other than that, it was only the point that if Markdown support is declared, it should actually adhere to CommonMark or similar, and not just be something homegrown.
Hey can you share a bit about how you are using Coda as a CMS-lite? Are you using section embeds or the API? I want to do something similar but am not sure the best way to get out of the coda sandbox.
Vote for better Markdown support. There’s no easy way to import or copy/paste Markdown content to Coda at the moment. This stops us from moving to Coda from other platforms.
Markdown is very important to me too.
I have a bunch of markdown exports from Notion that I’d like to bring into coda but have no idea how to do this
@Aidan_Foster Regarding voting on the doc - you may have been in view-only mode. There should be a button on top right to open the doc as your user account, after which you should be able to vote and make edits.
Coda does have tsv export. You can copy and paste your table into a text document. If you want to convert it to csv you can run a quick find and replace to convert all tabs (\t) to commas.
Though I highly recommend keeping it as tsv, it’s readable by most systems and it allows you to use commas in the fields, which are common occurrences in longform text.
