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Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?

Typora Writer Pro JotterPad wereturtle.github.io ghostwriter Obsidian.md Dillinger Ulysses.app Caret Editor MacDown MarkText.app
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    A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I, too, have used *Typora* for years whilst in Beta. I appreciated it's approach and features enough that I've paid for it. Alternately, there's a free editor called *MarkText* that is maybe 85% there as compared to Typora. I use this on my work Windows machine, which is pretty locked down due to corporate policies. References: - [Typora](https://typora.io/).

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

  2. Note. Write. Edit.
    I have drawn a blurry line of what constitutes an OK, beauty-ish, well-done tool. Beyond that, all are the same. I tend to continue with the one I got earlier that works fine. These days, I write quite a lot of plaintext/markdown in Obsidian and Sublime Text. However, if I have to flush out an editor focusing on writing, then iA Writer[1] is beautiful. I got my copy long back when they released it and never had to pay additional to use it or a subscription. Have an attachment with iA.net as one of those clean, minimal design companies, and my long-term product design friend used to intern with the company. 1. https://ia.net/writer.

    #Writing #Publishing #Writing Tools 36 social mentions

  3. JotterPad Writer for Android — Turn your thoughts into text. Go about your creative writing without distractions, write to your hearts content...
    Also has hybrid rendering! No weird 2nd pane just to have the readable pretty markdown. For android: https://jotterpad.app/ (also has a desktop app, never tested it though).

    #Writing #Writing Tools #Text Editors 2 social mentions

  4. NOTE: wereturtle.github.io ghostwriter has been discontinued.
    A distraction-free Markdown editor for the desktop
    I quite like Ghostwriter: https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 11 social mentions

  5. A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
    I enjoy Obsidian [1] daily. Perhaps more than a minimal editor, but very powerful overall. [1] https://obsidian.md/.

    #Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1450 social mentions

  6. joemccann has 95 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    When not using VSCode + preview, I have found https://dillinger.io/ pretty good as you can download the result in various formats.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 23 social mentions

  7. A powerful writing tool for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
    For Mac, https://ulysses.app/ looks nice. I use it for writing blog posts.

    #Writing Tools #Writing #Markdown Editor 21 social mentions

  8. Caret Editor is an editing tool for Chrome OS that is used for editing texts or codes.
    I'm the founder of a beautiful Markdown editor. Actually two: Nota - https://nota.md. It's a notes app but a lot of our users use it as a markdown editor. Nota is quite powerful as a markdown editor. It has a lot of smartness built into it. Caret - https://caret.io. We started with this - a beautiful Markdown editor. We aren't implementing new features for it but if you are on Windows or Linux it might be worth trying out. We still have new users coming in. A common feature of the two is that they both are pleasant to use. We've put a lot of hard work in the UX (which is also hard to market and one of the reasons why you probably haven't heard about us).

    #Office & Productivity #Tool #Text Editors 1 social mentions

  9. MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Macdown: https://macdown.uranusjr.com/ And here's a huge list: https://github.com/mundimark/awesome-markdown-editors.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions

  10. Mark Text is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux.
    FYI that page still links to https://marktext.app/ on the right under About.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Note Taking 4 social mentions

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