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  • How does this compare to Typora? That's the leader in this market as far as I can tell.
    by ForHackernews
  • The is refreshing. There are so many writing tools adding AI features and collaboration and everything else that a focused Markdown editor almost feels unusual now. I want to know what made you decide to keep it intentionally focused instead of turning it into a more feature-heavy editor.
    by Naitik88
  • Electron? No thanks.
    by noelectron
  • Not to be banging the same drum - but with AI it's so much easier to write a native app. No need for electron app esp. in the days when RAM costs more than a used car.
    by dan_man
  • Are markdown editors the new todo list app?

    There so many of them published, and probably thousands more that are someone's introduction to coding and just sitting is a github rotting away.

    by yitchelle
  • I've been looking for a markdown editor that let's me print the rendered view and have yet to find one. Which is quite surprising given how many there are. I just use my own webapp for now, should probably open source it in case anyone else is looking for this functionality.

    If you know of a nice mac app that let's me easily write / view and print markdown I'd love to hear from you!

    by anonfunction
  • I’m going to post this every time there’s a new markdown to pdf submission: quarto (https://quarto.org) is my go to tool. You can use it in R Studio, visual studio code or the cli. Uses pandoc under the hood, has support for latex and many more niceties.
    by tagyro
  • I've compromised a lot with Electron (because I finally had to!) but never for a lightweight text editor app. Never!

    Here are some alternatives if anyone is looking

    https://editorio.crncevic.org

    https://macdown.app/ (FOSS)

    https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit (FOSS)

    And if you must have an electron one then here are some FOSS options https://marktext.me

    by crossroadsguy

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