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?

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When an external Keyboard is connected only the additional key row is visible.

On all iPhones without Home Button the extra keys are not usable as the phone interprets the swiping at the bottom as the home gesture.

Is it possible to change to enlarging+tipping for these models?

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!

I’m having trouble creating a terminal for a protected account (balabit).  It would be really helpful to be able to get info about the ssh authentication.  Is there any way to add to the logs, something like the equivalent if “ssh -v” or even “ssh -vvv”?

I really love the quick find feature in the file navigator but when finding files in a project checked out with Working Copy it’ll often fill up with results in the “.git” directory - it would be great to be able to ignore the contents of this folder at least but a customisable list of ignores would be even better (maybe on a global and a project level too).

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.

Hello,

for a few days, I have this problem with Version 4.0.1 (35) :

I close all tabs and quit Textastic.

When I restart it, all tabs are open again, even after reboot.

Please add an option to disable this gesture, I bought the app today and several times I tried to horizontally slide my code (I don't use word warp) and accidentally moved the cursor with this gesture. I have to wait a few milliseconds before sliding my finger to avoid this, not good.

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.