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A cross-platform Markdown editor focused on speed and usability

Typora Markdown by DaringFireball Markdown Preview for (Neo)vim StackEdit
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    A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I saw "Typora 1.0" yesterday in the HN firehose, but it didn't make it to the main page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29349690 I've been playing around with it this morning, and ended up spending $14 on the license. Used it to go through some of my README.md files that I had some mistakes on. https://typora.io/.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions

  2. Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber
    > Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. The point of Markdown is to write plaintext in Markdown and convert to Markup (as in Hypertext Markup Language) Source: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 79 social mentions

  3. Preview markdown on your modern browser with synchronized scrolling and flexible configuration.
    Https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim works for me.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Brainstorming And Ideation 31 social mentions

  4. Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I wish I could consolidate a lot of the apps I use for Markdown: Blog: I used Vim for a long time, now I use the online editor https://stackedit.io. I found that composing blog posts involves cutting and pasting big blocks of text a lot more than coding, which is better done with a mouse. Github wiki: Good for sketching ideas for blog posts, and documentation. Editable by others. Github issues: similar to a TODO list for many people. Zulip: Good for chatting with others, and for brainstorming ideas. So it overlaps with the Github wiki for that. Not good for a TODO list. So there are all these apps that use Markdown but they are a bit disconnected. Is that what Notion is supposed to be? A bunch of apps that interoperate and are unified? I haven't tried it since I mainly stick to open source stuff (with the exception of Github, though it is built on git).

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 49 social mentions

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