Simplenote-electron: Preview mode in defaults

[CrazySky2121]

When I open a note it opens in Edit mode, but but it would be nice to specify the default mode in the settings

Steps to reproduce

1. Just click to created note
   

   What I expected

Setting for open note in preview by default

What happened instead

Note opens in Edit mode

OS version

Ubuntu 16.04

[davewhitley]

Unfortunately there are no plans to implement a feature like this.

[fregs7]

I achieved that in a rather hacky way by modifying the resources/app/dist/app.js file.
You have to look for the following part:

namespace: 'App',
initialState: {
    editorMode: 'edit',

And change edit to markdown.

Of course, this is totally a hack, but I want this behavior and this is the only way to have it, as there will be no support for this apparently. I wonder why.

[davewhitley]

An elegant way to implement this in Simplenote, is for the app to remember the last view mode you were in. Right now, if you restart the app, it reverts back to the editor as the default view.

[mirka]

I'm concerned that persisting the Preview mode state across app relaunches would cause usability issues. For notes that don't contain a lot of Markdown syntax, the Edit/Preview modes aren't that different visually. It may be disorienting to launch into a mode where you expect to start editing a note, but can't, and take some time to discover why.

[ghost]

So, we fixing this? I think edit should be the default, principle of least surprise in a note-taking app

on ios mobile it's not (and cannot be) the default, don't know about droid but I'd guess also a swipe-left only

[mirka]

Yeah, I guess the current behavior is ideal then. The mode will be preserved when selecting another note, but the app will always launch in Edit mode.