The discussion
So I've been writing Markdown for years but never thought of using an official editor. I do use the ones that come from the Jetbrains suite (PHPStorm, WebStorm, Intellij, ...) but the plugin and default markdownn editors seem a little buggy in UI mode, so I keep them in text view.
My co-worker uses an official editor called LightPaper. I decided to look for my own today. I found a free one for mac called MacDown and so far I love it. It's simple and works.
I do miss my VI/M shortcuts (wanna learn vim? checkout Marc's post on it, there are 9 parts!, they are amazing!) in it but I guess I can live without them for the benefit of seeing both my raw markdown along with the UI version.
So list your editor, or if you just stick to raw. Thoughts on the topic? Editors, plugins, or anything else that is cool for Markdown.
I'm looking forward to your thoughts.
--DeChamp
List created from comments
I took the time to create a list and find the links to the referred editors suggested, for your easy use!
- StackEdit (browser) | https://stackedit.io/
- Typora (osx, windows, linux)| https://typora.io/
- Quiver (osx) | http://happenapps.com/#quiver
- Neovim w/ markdown preview plugin | https://neovim.io/ with https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
- Ulysses (osx) | https://ulysses.app/features/
- VSCode w/ Markdown Preview Enhanced | https://code.visualstudio.com/ with https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/
- Joplin (osx, windows, linux) | https://joplin.cozic.net/
- Boostnote (osx, windows, linux, mobile?) | https://boostnote.io/
- MWeb (osx) | https://www.mweb.im/
- The Archive (osx) | https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
- Geeknote (terminal) | http://www.geeknote.me/
- Bear (osx|ios) | https://bear.app/
- MacDown (osx) | https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
- HackMD (web) | https://hackmd.io/
- Markor (Android) | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.markor
- Notion (desktop, ios/android) | https://www.notion.so/
- VimR (terminal)| https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
- Markdown Mode (emacs) | https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/
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Latest comments (71)
Hi! Recently I discovered an editor named Left. It has something that remembers me of vim or an editor like it
VS Code!
Thanks for your sharing.
I want to practice MD for writing.
Try and give my opinion soon.
Thanks for compiling the list from comments. I use Boostnote.
I created an open source online markdown viewer and editor called Marcdown.
It's lightweight, fast and clean. I wrote about it on dev.to and got immense support from my fellow devs 🧡💛💙💚💜
GitHub link
it's awesome!
very cool!
Try zettlr. It's new, open source and great to use.
I usually just stick to VSCode. Both when editing something inside a repo and if I just want some good formatting preview for comments/posts somewhere, since I likely have it open or at least within a click.
Sometimes I install Markdown All in One or Markdown Preview Enhanced.
Sometimes I don't.
I just started using Remarkable, and overall, I'd say it's pretty good. Fast, nice theming, live preview, basic syntax highlighting...
My only gripe so far is the lack of any find or replace command, which makes some final checking awkward.
Vim or anything vim like. Currently I use emacs with the evil mode (basically vi(m) in emacs) which is awesome. Currently I use pandoc to convert markdown do presentations or pdf. Really nice tool.
Well then checkout boostnote and turn on vim via settings. I'm loving it so far.
its a general editor, not specific to Markdown, but I use
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