Like adding shields/badges/assets within automatically
managing a directory like structure by generating new MD files in a directory like folder structure.

Essentially an IDE like environment just for markdown file management and a WYSIWYG editing experience

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

READMEs aren't necessarily markdown. That is the most popular option, but there's others out there. Here's Github's list of supported README formats for example:

The following markups are supported. The dependencies listed are required if you wish to run the library. You can also run script/bootstrap to fetch them all.

.markdown, .mdown, .mkdn, .md -- gem install commonmarker (https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker)

.textile -- gem install RedCloth (https://github.com/jgarber/redcloth)

.rdoc -- gem install rdoc -v 3.6.1

.org -- gem install org-ruby (https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby)

.creole -- gem install creole (https://github.com/larsch/creole)

.mediawiki, .wiki -- gem install wikicloth (https://github.com/nricciar/wikicloth)

.rst -- pip install docutils

.asciidoc, .adoc, .asc -- gem install asciidoctor (http://asciidoctor.org)

.pod -- Pod::Simple::XHTML comes with Perl >= 5.10. Lower versions should install Pod::Simple from CPAN.