RE: Steemit Community: What Kind of Software Would You Like Me to Create for You? (Free - No Strings)
I think it would be incredibly useful if you created a software that acted as a reference for Markdown and HTML so that people could use it to look up certain things they wanted to do on their posts.
I find the biggest problem I have on SteemIt is using the editor and getting the post to look just the way I want it to.
Maybe you could even create a desktop editor that people could open and create their SteemIt posts in, and then copy and past that right into the SteemIt editor.
It would save loads of time that gets wasted because people have to look up how to do simple things like center images, make words bold, italic, and underlined, and change font size, etc.
I think that would be big. A nice small desktop application that you could simply click, open up, write your post in, and then hit a button to copy it all to the clipboard. Then it would simply be a matter of pasting into the SteemIt editor, adding tags, and posting.
You could even add a feature that would analyze the post and come up with the most popular tags on SteemIt that fit the content.
Great idea! I think we could put something like that together and probably a few added bells & whistles. Thanks for the suggestion! :)
I think that is a great idea as well.
For Markdown, I think you should check out Markdown Pad. I just saw it while researching about this, downloaded it, and it is really easy to use. You write as you normally would and then just highlight whatever text you want and click - bold, italic, or what-have-you - and the editor automatically wraps what you highlight with the correct Markdown syntax, and you can see a live preview in the right pane.
It handles images and everything else like that. Super easy, and then you can copy/paste that into the Steemit post editor. With images, it asks for the image url, so that gets included when you copy/paste . The only thing I noticed that it does not handle are videos.