At the end of December 2024, I hit the Hugo. In many ways it is phenomenal. I created Willhack. However, I am struggling with editing articles. For the moment, I’m using VSCode with RooCode with an AI subscription on github to format and translate articles. Unfortunately, I’m just learning SEO and Markdown and am going clumsy creating new content. Is there any writing tool that makes it easier to compose an article to make it pretty and at the same time include the necessary formatting for seo?
Making an article pretty is the job of CSS. You don’t do that for every article afresh, I’d say. And judging from one of your posts, you’re using blowfish, so that has been taken care of. What are you missing, why do you have the impression that you have to make an article “pretty” while writing it?
And “formatting” for SEO is in the same league: Your Hugo template(s) should do that, using front matter and site parameters. And judging from one of your posts, that has already been taken care of. What are you missing from your SEO data?
It was unfortunate that I used the word pretty, I meant not the css but the creation itself in Markdown. Here we have three sets of tools. The first is markdown formatting, the second is hugo shortcodes and the third is theme shortcodes. I made myself help files for preview. However, it is not convenient. I know, it will get easier with time 
As for seo, I meant not the basics, which hugo takes care of, but the article itself. From what I’ve read an article that is optimal for seo is supposed to have a certain number of keywords in certain formats.
I also encountered this problem myself. There is no ‘non technical’ way to do content edits. Ideally you could do that with some markdown editor which generates the .md file for your from a wdym editor (without the metadata) but then you lose all the ability to include references/shortcodes/variables from hugo.
Plus markdown is kinda limited on its elements, one use case that I needed is the ability to open links in a new tab , but md does not support adding this extra option to the links.
I have taken a look at ascidoc (Working with Hugo :: IntelliJ AsciiDoc Plugin) but the syntax is even worse than markdown.
True, but Hugo does.