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I suggest trying Obsidian for WYSIWYG markdown editing. It beats heck out of typing it raw and eliminates that cognitive load.

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I don’t like WYSIWYG editing, as it makes the formatting invisible.

Then you might like Obsidian. When the cursor is in some bit of formatted text, it displays all of the characters. When the cursor is elsewhere, it just shows the formatted text.

In the worst case, the barrier to entry and exit are pretty low.

Obsidian has 2 main advantages to me.

First you can switch from WYSIWYG to text editor instantly.

Then you have an outline where you can manipulate your “markdown blocks” [i.e title and its content] by drag n drop. Or extract a “markdown block” as a new note, and leave a reference where it originally was extracted from.

And then [the killing feature], it displays the content of a link, web link or internal link, as a [kind of] iframe, if you prepend a ! to the link.

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