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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I've used IA Writer for my personal blog and like it for standard writing, but it doesn't support coding tutorial formats very well (e.g. code snippets are hard to get formatted right).
Recently I installed a markdown plugin for Sublime Text and like how it works. I use ST as my coding editor, so it integrates well with all the keybindings I already know. It's missing some features, but overall seems to be worth the switch.
Nice, I'll look at that one. I love sublime but for coding I stick to the jetbrain products, I've tried to move away from them just for the sake of giving it a try, I just can't. They are to much of an amazing product to give up.
I would recommend you HackMD. It's pretty up to date, small and everything one like myselfe needs. So give it a try.
Cheers, Labi
Awesome. It looks like there is community built around it as well? Do you take advantage of that?
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Aside from HackMD which was mentioned, another good one is StackEdit. Syncs right up to your Google Drive if you want it to and all your docs can be stored there, in the magical cloud! Straightforward and free, oh and the best part for you, you can customize the keyboard shortcuts so VIM it up~!
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For me, I'm using Contentful as a markdown editor based upon embedly which also acts as CMS as well for my blog which I find that it's really cool.
I use an Android App
Markor
I really like because of its Dark Mode 🤤😎
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For me, I use Contentful editor to write and store my blog posts which is based from embed.ly.
That is pretty cool setup!
I am not someone who writes amazing markdowns nor lot of READMEs. So,I just like vscode with the inbuild preview feature, seeing the live output on my right
Typora is what I use for all my project READMEs and random MD stuff. The UI looks great and it's actually native.
I like it! 😃
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My favorite ones, in order, are: MWeb, The Archive, and Quiver. I typically start in The Archive, and print/spell check/grammar check from Mweb. Quiver I use for code snippets using my Alfred workflow to paste them.
I will second Quiver, I've been using it for years. One of my favorite features is that you can switch between WYSIWYG and Markdown modes, and how you can include multiple "blocks" within a single document.
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Neovim with iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim.
This is a correct answer.
All those web-based editors are bloat imo
Yes may be, but anyone can choose what they think is best. :)
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This works with regular Vim as well.
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