I have been using Textastic for a while now for mobile coding and Markdown editor with preview.

Slowly, I am migrating my notes out of Evernote to full markdown notes.

It is mind boggling but if you look in the apps market there is no single application that is a good markdown notes manager. 
Textastic would be great if it had synchronization; I have been able to find the upload-download mode which is kind of annoying because you have to do the task manually.

I found kind of best practice so far, unless somebody else has been able to find a sync method in Textastic. It uses GoodReader, another iPad app, and the iPad local folders.

These are steps: 

1. Use GoodReader to synchronize any remote folder to your iPad. In my case I used WebDAV but I have made it work with Google Drive, Dropbox, and SFTP. GoddReadr is the app that keeps the two-way synchronization.
2. Once the connection to the server or remote is on, download the remote folder to a local iPad folder. GR will tell you that folder will be synchronized. Choose "Delete local" and "Remote file" to keep both sides fully synced.

3. Go to Textastic and add a external folder. Point to the iPad local folder that you just synced.

4. Now, you can write/preview your Markdown comfortably, including images because the images were downloaded and work as local.

5. Once your changes were made, locally or remotely, sync your folder using GoodReader.

I know, it seems like many steps, but it does what i wanted: notes synchronization, note editing, and note preview including remote images.

the only thing missing here is that Textastic doesn’t seem to have a method to insert images in Markdown files. But that is a minor pain until the app evolves a little bit further. 

Have you found another way to sync Markdown notes without paying an annual fee?

f0nzie

Hi there,

Since today’s update the navigation wheel is gone. I cannot reactivate with a two-finger tap or by any other means. Please help because the possibility to move the cursor without having a physical keyboard attacked is the main reason why I picked Textastic over simply editing my files with WorkingCopy!

When using Textastic in split view on iPadOS 13, resizing the app moves the view around even though the cursor stays in the same place. This means that the user has to manually scroll back or type something to get the cursor back in view. Please see attached GIF.

I've recently purchased the app with hopes of being able to transfer files to and from my google drive account. I know that this feature is available with the app, however after attempting to add the google drive connection and signing in, the app does not recognize my account sign in and will not add the google drive connection. I have attempted to add multiple google drive accounts without success. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello,

I really love your app but I’m not being able to create external folders using third party services like onedrive, in the moment they all (except icloud) are greyed out.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

1. I started a new document, to be saved on Dropbox while offline. finished it. closed my ipad.

2. Opened my ipad at work, where it connected to my wifi

3. It then deleted the contents of the document saying “couldn’t communicate with a helper application.”

Result: I lost my column which has to be filed in two hours. 

I tried to add a folder from my Synology to Textastic, using Files and the Synology Drive mapp I'm able to browse the files but when I use Textastic nothing happens when I tap on Synology Drive. I'm probably missing something basic but what?

the current list of actions that x-callback-url supports is sufficient, apart from the lack of one that return the contents of a specified file. would that be a feature to be considered?

while we're on the topic of automation/app-interaction, would Textastic be adding support for custom Shortcuts actions?

Basically what I'm suggesting is that the new file/folder dialog box be modified to have a path field. This field would allow those of us with a keyboard on our iPads to type out the path to the new file relative to the directory we're currently browsing. It also recursively creates all the folders that do not exist in order to create the file/folder. I have to create files quite frequently and having to navigate up and down the folder structure while also having to select whether it is a file or folder and then name it take much longer than it should. If I have to create 25 files and the folders they go in I've just wasted nearly a minute of time just creating the files. Now, that doesn't sound like much but eventually that number grows into hours and days. Never mind the fact that I haven't actually programmed anything yet.