On Hive/Steem blockchain you can use Markdown or basic HTML or just regular text to make a post. However, it is best to stick to the Markdown due to its simplicity. Here is my suggestion about which Markdown editor is the best.
There are tons of Markdown editors out there, most of them great but after almost 4 years of trying to find the best editor out there, I finally found one and I can swear by it.
Most Markdown editors out there have a bulky installation file and process or don’t have live preview (this come quite handy,more than you may think) or have cluttered UI or have some other issue, I am sure you get the point.
To begin with let me say I didn't really like online editors, a single mishap like reload and all your content that you worked for hours on end, just disappears, I don’t think I need to say how infuriating that gets. That is the exact reason why, I used to use Typora. But if you are new to Markdown then Typora may not work for you. The entire UI is stuck to the top and you have to use drop-down menus for any and all operations (that is if you don’t mind memorizing a ton of shortcuts). In short not very user friendly. But it does have a lot of features and it has that going for it.
But I got weary of Typora in the end and wanted to find a better editor, something friendly, simple and yet very robust. And that is when I came across StackEdit. It is a online editor, but before you jump to conclusions (like I did when I first heard of it), let me say it works offline as well.
So why is StackEdit great?
So, to begin with all the content you write is stored locally and autosaved, so even if you reload the page your work will still be there, when you get back.
You get to see the Markdown and the live preview of the Markdown at the same time and the preview has an option of scroll sync, which allows you to scroll any part of the Markdown and see the live preview of that exact content.
The UI is super simple to use PERIOD.
All your work can be synced across various cloud services.
You can make and reuse templates, this can get handy too.
You can access it even if you are offline , no installation necessary.
It’s open-source, so you can customize it if you know how to.
It can publish your work directly to various content hosting services.
You can track file revisions just like git and that is just the icing on top.
There are a lot more features packed into it. My only complaint was that the code button, does not print out HTML tags for code instead adds a tab which some Markdown interpreters understand but others don’t. But you can change that with a little bit of tinkering in the settings.
Conclusion
Though Typora is a great Markdown editor, it lacks the finesse that StackEdit has over it, not to add the user-friendliness is just perfect for anyone just starting up with Markdown. So when it comes to choosing between Typora and StackEdit I am going to choose StackEdit every time.
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