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Zed: a ‘next-generation’ code editor An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Zed, Outl and Zettelstore, HydePHP, a static site generator for developers, and Orsn, a research notebook. Zed is described as a next-generation code editor. Supports more than 80 languages without adding any plugins. A quick look around Zed’s ‘millions’ of settings…
SiYuan, a personal knowledge management system, supports markdown An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Editorial and SiYuan, Eziwiki, a lightweight wiki generator, KovaMD, a presentation app, and Agenda, a note-taking app tied to your calendar. Editorial is a plain text editor for iOS with markdown support and a number of powerful…
Cogito is not simply a markdown editor, it’s a native markdown editor built for macOS From the moment you start up Cogito, you know you’re in for something extraordinary. And there it is, it’s a markdown editor in the true sense of the word. There’s no toolbar. You’re all alone, and can get on with the task at hand, writing, adding your own shortcuts and syntax to bold, italicise and otherwise…
V2editor: a local-first markdown editor with version control An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Typora, Cogito, Lettera, Canto and V2editor. Typora is a markdown editor I came across a number of years ago while having a brief toy with a Chromebook and a Windows laptop. It was the only editor I could find of any worth. In this latest test…
Markdown Mate claims to create an Obsidian-like experience An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Ulysses, Markdown Mate, Bokuchi, Rook, Editxr and Marka.md. Ulysses is a great markdown editor. I used it for a number of years while I was editing books: big tomes, with many chapters and sections. The books generally arrived in .docx format, an…
Scratch is free and open source. It does tasks, wikilinks, slash commands and, most important, works the way a markdown editor should An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Bear, Scratch and Supernotes. There are also links to the web-based Tables Generator and Kept, an app that captures all your chats with a number of LLM providers. Bear was…
Obsidian allows you to open two documents side by side, one for your note, one for reference or research An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Obsidian, Marka.md, Nota Bene and MXmarkedit. We also look at Tableflip, a solution that makes creating tables in markdown less of a chore. Obsidian remains the ‘daddy’ for many users, despite only…
Marka is a free, open-source markdown editor available for macOS, Linux and Windows An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Editorio, Byword, Marka and Magic Notebook. There’s also a quick look at AS Notes, which brings the power of knowledge management to VS Code. Editorio is a text, markdown and coding app with a preview, various themes…
Clearly, the markdown editor, is limited by font choice and the editor width is narrow, medium and wide, but it’s not a bad start, especially for a free app As a former (production) journalist, still doing the occasional work, I have been used to dealing with different systems: from PCs using WordStar or MS Word to the latest design tools on Mac. What I learned early on – back in the late 1980s –…
Neon Vision Editor is a free markdown and coding editor that covers more than 30 languages An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Neon Vision Editor, Breveto, Inkwell, Notelane and Beaver Notes. Neon Vision Editor is a lightweight, modern markdown and code editor, with a focus on speed, readability and automatic syntax highlighting. Minimal…
Caret is an open source markdown editor with a novel way to access settings An occasional post 1 from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 2 are markdown editors 3 Notesnook, Caret and Melo. Plus there’s Presenterm, a terminal-based presentation tool, and GhostCue, a useful app for those who like to take notes while engaged – or not, as the case may be – in online meetings. Notesnook has a…
Affine, the knowledge management app, makes a decent job of presenting your markdown documents. It’s worth considering if you’re starting out An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among 1 today’s links 2 are markdown editors Neverwrite, Lumen, Notchpad and Marco. Plus there’s Affine, an open-source knowledge management app, similar to Notion, but better, in my opinion. Affine , or AFFiNE…
Markdown, as you’ll see below, is an easy mark-up language to learn. It can save you an immense amount of time, by enabling you to keep your fingers on the keyboard, rather than the mouse (or the trackpad). All you need now is a good markdown editor – many are free to use – or any text editor/word processor that allows you to save/export in plain text. Memorise the following syntax.…
Bean is a word processor rather than a markdown editor, but with a few careful adjustments to the settings you can give it that ‘plain text look’ An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links 1 are markdown editors Notenik and Yank Note. We also look at: Mini Diarium, an encrypted journal; Bean, a versatile word processor; and, Inc, an incremental note-taking system. Notenik…
Upnote is a competitively priced markdown editor that offers a lifetime licence An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Upnote, Seychl, HedgeDoc and Apostrophe. Plus we look at Deckless, a markdown to slide presentation tool that turns its back on the world of proprietary formats, and DokuWiki, which is going native on us by introducing markdown…
Nota: with a handful of exceptions, this is the best markdown editor I have come across An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Brainio, Tokyo Notes and Nota. Plus we look at MarkMello, a markdown viewer with a built-in editing mode, and Zim Wiki, which is described as a graphical text editor. Nota is a markdown app for all manner of things, from…
Clearly has some great features, but there are a number of minor issues that deter me from ditching my current editor An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Plain Text Editor and Clearly, plus Herbert, a writing environment for long-form content. We also cover Blank, an open source blog app, and Quik, which allows you to speak your notes and export…
Markpad: the equivalent of Notepad in markdown An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Markpad, ZenNotes, Memos and an update from Binderus. Plus there’s a quick look at Albireo, a flat-file CMS. Markpad is described as Notepad’s equivalent for markdown. It is RAM efficient and offers GitHub-flavoured markdown, LaTeX support, Vim mode, split views,…
Despite the dated look of its website, Nisus Writer Pro is a step up from MS Word An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Cyberwriter, Wrangle and t-ext, and markdown viewer Mdterm. Plus a quick look at Nisus Writer Pro, a useful word processor. I first used it back in the 1990s, when I was converted over to it from WordStar by friend and magazine…
Markset is a macOS utility that first renders a markdown file in Finder’s QuickLook preview and then allows you to export it as a typeset PDF An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Mark Us Down, Nimbalyst, Sveltemark, Markoun and ReText. Plus there’s static site generator Zensical and a nifty little macOS utility called Markset. Mark Us Down is a…
Qownnotes could be among the best markdown editors if you can overlook the fact that it has so many settings An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Qownnotes, Binderus, Notediscovery and WriteMonkey, plus a free and open-source CMS called Typemill. Qownnotes , if it wasn’t for the bewildering array if settings, would be among the best markdown…
MarkText could be the perfect markdown editor, but will we ever see its full potential? An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors MarkText, Haxiom, NotepadMD, GitWriter and Aster, an open-source typesetting system called Quarkdown, and Blogr, a lightweight static site generator. MarkText is an MIT-licensed, open-source markdown editor. The latest…
Pencel’s interface is clutter-free, designed for those who need to concentrate on their writing. That means all of us! An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Notanic, Pencel, Poe and Zettel, a markdown outliner for VSCode, and Mud, a markdown previewer for those who prefer to stick with their current, non-markdown text editor. Notanic is for people…
Verso is a minimalist editor for macOS. Remember Byword? It’s like that An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Versowriter, Flutter and Colibri, slides from markdown app Deckdown, and Sitepins, a CMS for your non-technical clients. Plus Will Ranjan-Churchill walks us through his process for paring Obsidian back to the bone. Versowriter is a…
On the face of it, Glyph looks like a good markdown editor, but it still has room for improvement An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Swifty, Glyph, MWeb, book aid Writers Studio, and a significant new release for SilverBullet, a local-first markdown editor. Swifty is a free GTK markdown app designed for Linux installations. Install it via…
Acreom is a knowledge management tool for engineers An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Peregrine, Haptic, Markln and Slate, plus Acreom, a knowledge management tool aimed at engineers. Peregrine is a rapid, append-only logging and note-taking app. Prebuilt app packages for the latest version are not yet supported, so you’ll have to build it…
EdgeMark gives you access to your notes in a ’slide’ panel An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Instant Markdown Notes, MarkNote and EdgeMark, a scientific and technical publishing system known as Quarto, and Trillium, a Notion-like app that throws the whole cart at you. Instant Markdown Notes is an app designed for taking notes throughout the…
NotesMe: get up and running by issuing three simple commands, assuming you already have Docker installed on your system An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Notable and NotesMe, a command-line tool called Markdown-to-Book, a free macOS utility called Markedly, and Docmd, a static site generator for your documentation. Notable is a macOS app. It’s…
Papelzhino is a notes app that has been designed to capture those fleeting thoughts you have and move them to the bin as soon as you are finished with them An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Autype, Dokieli and Jotter, a personal wiki for Vim, and a free scrap note app called Papelzhino. Autype is a headless document engine built for…
The Snippets’ interface hides an underwhelming approach to markdown An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Plumio and MultiMarkdown Composer, notes app Snippets, wireframe editor Mockdown, and markdown browser Hike. Mockdown is a free browser-based ASCII wireframe editor. Sketch a user interface in minutes, export as markdown, paste into Claude…
Sidenotes does what its name suggests, slides in from the side of the screen An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Sidenotes, Grape and CollabMD, a wiki tool called Otterwiki – you have got to love the choice of name – and BlogMore, a static site generator developed entirely in Copilot. Otterwiki is a minimalistic wiki powered by python, markdown…
MKeditor’s clean interface supports access to tables, code blocks and admonitions An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Minknote, SilverBullet and MKeditor, markdown reader/viewer Readdown, a mini guide to Neovim/Vim, and the ultimate markdown set up in the Micro Journal Rev. 2. Readdown is a markdown reader that prevents opening .md…
From the WordStar Training Guide: a typical computer When I first used one of these new-fangled boxes, known as computers, it was back in the early 1980s while learning the Basic programming language at college. Beyond that I don’t remember much. But the first work computer I had was similar to the one above – dual floppy drive and all. It was also the first time I had encountered a word…
Kraa’s web interface is minimalist to say the least An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the filesystem. Mat Duggan writes about filesystems going back to the pre-Microsoft Word days of WordPerfect and WordStar, when, those of us that remember…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are static site generators Dodeca and Makko, markdown editors MacDown, Nota, Heptabase, TablaCognita and Markjason, plus ebook creator Pinery. MacDown is a free, lightweight markdown editor for macOS that is very much in the Dillinger vein but for the desktop. No controls over settings, no library panel, just the file you have…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are code editor Voiden, minimal blog framework Madblog, and markdown editors uFocus, Notebooks, Inkdrop and Dumbnote. Voiden is a free and open source code editor. It is an offline-first API client and workspace for developers, API testers and technical writers who want clarity, speed and control. The one problem I could see was…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Octarine, Medita and SilentNotes, code editor AnySlate, headless CMS Matterbld, support for markdown arrives in OnlyOffice, and PDF editor and viewer Pixel and Paper. Octarine is still in active development, so there are a few rough edges. Features include a daily notes section, known as Daily Desk, a Mermaid…
Defuddle allows you to get the content of any web page as markdown An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are markdown editors Otterly and I Write Like; Defuddle, which gets the main content of any web page in markdown; Kewt, a small as you like static site generator; and Obsidian Web Clipper, which works with any markdown editor, not only Obsidian. Otterly is a…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook . Among today’s links are: Blogatto, a static site generator; Kirby’s CMS is on sale, again; a piece of software that brings indent mode to markdown; markdown editor Ghostmd; and, Tokie, which transforms your markdown files into a database. Static site generator Blogatto is a framework for building static blogs with Lustre and markdown. It generates…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links are: MiaoYan, a local-first markdown editor; how to create slides from Obsidian docs; Hike, a local markdown browser; Typst, a markup language for typesetting documents – I happen to love this, but it’s definitely one for the backburner; Gram, an opinionated code editor; and, the news that static site generator 11ty has become…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links are notes app Tape comes up with a new version, the latest version of Windows 11 is to support markdown through its Notepad app, Lobster.js is a static site generator that weighs in at an almost weightless 22KB, the latest version of MarkEdit introduces YAML frontmatter highlighting, and Collabora clashes with LibreOffice over its…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links are a powerful editor for markup languages, a new-to-me markdown editor, a fresh static site generator sees the light, and there’s an opportunity to regain your digital sovereignty. ReText is a simple but powerful editor for markup languages. It is based on the Markups module, which supports markdown, reStructuredText, Textile and…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links are a markdown power-editor for Bear Blog, Craft’s latest update, a distraction-free markdown notepad that auto-saves locally and a talk about McDonalds. What? A markdown power-editor for Bear Blog. From Recycled Words, “I wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel, just make it spin a lot smoother for people [who use Bear blog]”.…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links are an interesting take on static site generators, a new release of Netnewswire, a tutorials and workshops update for Docsify-This, the latest update from markdown editor Ulysses, and a markdown-related update for LibreOffice: Kev Quirk introduces his latest project, Pure Blog . He says: “[It] is a simple PHP-based blogging…
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links, there is a text editor designed to work with markdown, JSON, YAML and TOML, a new iPad app with a mathematical leaning and markdown editor Tangent Notes’ latest update, a major one. The developer says Ferrite is a fast, lightweight text editor for markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. It is built with Rust and egui for a native,…
The above image shows a note (gist) in OctoNote rendered on Github’s gist platform OctoNote is a markdown-based note taking app. It connects with GitHub so you have a place to store your gists/notes and share them with everyone. As with many of the iOS-based markdown editors, there are a number of shortcuts that allow you to add markdown tags without having to work your way through the…
Version 4.0 of Zettlr is a significant upgrade that brings with it a new onboarding process Zettlr 4.0 has been released and, as promised , brings with it a number of important changes. Here are the ones you need to know about: Table editor . While previously, users were plagued by data loss issues and other behaviours, all these issues have been fixed in improved table editor. New image and PDF…
I love this analogy from Iterative Wonders: Imagine you go to a famous burger joint. You love the special sauce. You ask the chef for the recipe, and he looks at you like you just asked for his social security number. “It’s a trade secret,” he says, guarding the vat of mayo with his life. That is Proprietary Software. You can use it, but you can’t see how it works, you can’t fix it if it breaks,…
FSNotes offers iCloud synchronisation and is available for macOS and iOS To steal a few lines on open source versus proprietary software from Iterative Wonders : Imagine you go to a famous burger joint. You love the special sauce. You ask the chef for the recipe, and he looks at you like you just asked for his social security number. “It’s a trade secret,” he says, guarding the vat of mayo with…
Craft’s AI assistant is just one area where users will see improvements Craft , the notes app with access to tasks, a built-in calendar, whiteboards and daily notes, has released a major update this Thanksgiving. Among the changes are updates to the app’s AI assistant, API and MCP integrations, improvements to whiteboards, a dusting off of the code editor and collections, and an Android beta being…