#41

I don’t use Obsidian as an editor any more; coders seem determined that it remain a code editor only.

But I have two workarounds, for those who are interested:

  1. Copy an Obsidian page (or any document or list with lines, where you really want paragraphs), paste into a word processor (Word does this perfectly, but it has worked 99% of the time in other word processors), then copy that page and paste back into the program you started with. Voilà! Lines are now paragraphs.
  2. Use a keyboard utility. I used Clavier+ to do this in another program. I set up Enter to produce Enter Enter when the Num Lock was set to off (usually I have it on, but it doesn’t matter anyway). Since I nearly always want a succession of one behaviour or the other, I don’t use the Num Lock very often, and I always have paragraphs when I want them.
    Simple and effective.

Though neither is as good as programs that allow configuration.

#42
  1. “Strict line breaks” is already disabled by default which gives you a paragraph on line break in reading view and parity on live preview and reading (breaking markdown spec by the way; strict line breaks is one of the first things I toggle on).
  2. comparisons to outliners like roam and athens and markdown editors like Obsidian is apples and oranges. I’ve yet to use an editor that behaves as you are prescribing by default. This would be surprising behavior.

An aside, given the overwhelming enthusiasm for live preview, I’m not quite sure how a line break behavior default like this means coders are determined that [Obsidian] remain a code editor only. :laughing:

#43

They’re not paragraphs. Still just lines. Markdown is strict in its definition of paragraphs.

As I pointed out above, there’s Typora and MarkText.

Roam etc are PKM apps as well as being outliners.
You can see the way that users switch between them - including Obsidian - that many are interesting in the PKM abilities rather than the outliner design.