Based on our record, MarkText.app should be more popular than Manuskript. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Looks like you want something that integrates well with your workflow. The closest to your description seems to be Manuskript although I haven't used it. But your requirement of "keeping notes and frameworks and linking back and forth" should be possible by stitching together existing Linux tools using a syntax like markdown or asciidoc so that you can use any text editor to write your story and use external tools... Source: about 4 years ago
FYI that page still links to https://marktext.app/ on the right under About. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
Marktext.app is offline, and according to Github, the creator has been really quiet on any commits in all of April ( Jocs (Ran Luo) ยท GitHub ). Source: over 3 years ago
For writing use MarkText. It's a single-pane WYSIWYG Markdown editor. You edit directly in the rendered text. You don't have to know Markdown, it's the underlying file format. Think of it as a word processor that uses Markdown under the hood. Source: over 3 years ago
Maybe you want to take a look at the Mark Text? Source: over 3 years ago
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