Hi Irene, thanks for this blog post. I've actually often wondered if Scrivener was worth buying...
At the moment, I write my own posts with several tools, I am trying different options. What I really like is MarkdownPad2. Currently, I am using the free version. If you go for the pro version, you'll be able to drag and drop images into your posts - I am really thinking of buying this.
Another good option is steemstyle.com. It is a web-based solution that lets you drag and drop your images - I do, however, see a few issues: first, it is web-based and as I see it, your texts will be gone when closing the page.
Further, what happens to the images you drop into your articles? They seem to be uploaded to imgur - but where? Are they uploaded publicly? I haven't been able to find that out so far.
I also tried to create blog posts in editors such as brackets but found that too "complicated" - you'll have to enter all markdown commands manually and don't have a pre-view option, so I dismissed this option.
Cheers,
Ines
At the moment, I can highly recommend Markdownpad2. See this link if you'd like to check that out: http://markdownpad.com/news/2013/introducing-markdownpad-2/
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I tried Markdownpad2 and rejected it. I honestly don't remember why because I was trying Markdown editors one after the other. If I wasn't going to use Scrivener, I would still be using Visual Studio Code. This is not isual Studio, the .Net IDE, it is a fairly new free IDE from Microsoft that was made specifically for working with web projects. It can do other things as well with the right plugins installed and Markdown is one of those other things. The advantage to Visual Studio Code is that you can keep all of your documents in a folder and just open the folder with Visual Studio Code. It does have preview, but the preview doesn't load images.
I am a bit reluctant to using Microsoft products for things like that, experienced too much of trouble with any kinds of software I tested from them. Unfortunately, for my translation business I need some software which won't work with Linux - otherwise I had installed their OS long ago.
For me it is essential to see the images in the preview, so Visual Studio wouldn't be an option for me, anyway. In the end it's always a personal choice, as long as one's happy with it, one should use whatever feels good.
Cheers,
Ines