Hello!
Deepdwn began life as a tool for me personally, so it has a number of developer-friendly features, but over time I’ve tried to expand it’s usefulness for writing prose, and improving the UI, etc, to varying degrees of success :)
Is there currently a way to rearrange outline sections and their underlying text from the outline pane?
Not currently. I’ve thought about it some, but I’m not sure it’s a good match for markdown-based outlining, where the outline is based on the header level.
To maintain the tree-like structure, it would need to change the heading level (and possibly later headings as well), or would move (possibly large) sections of text around without changing the header level at all, and I don’t think either of these feel natural in a markdown document.
I haven’t been able to get outline folding to work. Is there a post or page explaining that?
Folding only affects the document view itself, rather than the outline. Here’s the update where it was introduced, which talks about it a bit more: https://billiam.itch.io/deepdwn/devlog/270905/v0250-folding-pinning-file-monitoring-scroll-improvements
a way to convert a mind map into Markdown headings and body text
Not currently planned, as I don’t know how many users would benefit from it. Can you talk about your specific workflow there? Where would your outline come from?
Is there any facility for attaching non-printing annotations to text?
For portability, only what’s available in standard markdown, namely HTML style comments. In Deepdwn, these aren’t rendered in the preview, but there’s some variation in how they’re handled by other systems.
You can select text and press control (or command, on a mac) + forward slash to comment out the selected text in general.
I’m glad you’re finding it useful!