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Which markdown editor do you use?

There are so many markdown editors that it's hard to find even the most valuable ones! So please help me and let me know what you are using if you work a lot with markdown :)

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Donald Merand

I'm a big fan of Quiver on Mac. I mostly use it to store little notes about things I'm working on, but I even use it for writing longer-form stuff like blog posts, etc.

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Meghan (she/her)

VS Code has a really good built-in side by side Markdown editor!

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George Tseres

I agree. VS Code + Markdown Preview do a pretty good job for MD editing.

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Gunnar Gissel

I mostly just use a text editor, like notepad++. When I want side-by-side display, I've been using Atom.js

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Andy Zhao (he/him) • Edited

I love Macdown. It's great for longer writing, although to be fair I don't write that much and don't have that much experience with the app.

It's also open source and would love to integrate a "Publish/Upload to dev.to" button one day -- an idea we've talked about in the office.

Disclaimer: I work for dev.to 🙃

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Dian Fay

The whole point of Markdown is it's easy to write it in a regular text editor. I use neovim for everything anyway, why switch for a single filetype? It even does syntax highlighting, and there's a plugin to generate a table of contents.

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Valentin Baca

Same here. Vim or Sublime w/ Vintage Mode

However, occasionally markdown breaks the "pure text" model (usually when working with lists). I've tried using a markdown editor but I end up missing visual mode too much.

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Pan Chasinga

I'm using Marked 2 and just plain emacs. Turns out having a separate renderer and editor is more productive.

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Johan

This is what i use in Emacs markdown-mode

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Sergio Alvariño

So do I. I write a lot of pandoc-markdown and get different formats for my output files with a makefile.

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Ilyas Karim

I love markdown for writing a blog, I recommend this one: github.com/hinesboy/mavonEditor

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Grigor Bezirganyan • Edited

I use Boostnote. It is markdown based note keeping app. It is also cross-platform and open-source

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Lamonte

trying this out now, looks amazing. I downloaded the one on the main site (turns out it was version 0.1.2 lol, hotkeys weren't working, latest is 0.13 and it's miles nicer looking and hotkeys work :D)

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Grigor Bezirganyan

Cool, will check out the newer version. Meanwhile you can also check out typora. I use both currently: Boostnote for keeping notes, and typora for creating PDFs with markdown (latex, code blocks, etc.). Typora provides much more interactive experience, while boostnote provides better note organization.

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Nihar Raote

I'm currently using VS Code's built-in markdown editor. Though this discussion thread has some awesome ones I'd love to try☺

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Stephen Senkomago Musoke

I use GitBook for documentation hosted on the platform, Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ inbuilt markdown editors - depends on the job at hand