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Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#11
Seems like I'm just part of the club here, but I've also been working on something similar recently.

https://vantageapp.dev/

I find connecting understanding between humans and agents is one of the most important parts of the agentic development cycle, and markdown is a great way to handle that.

Not only can you point it at an entire directory, you can point it at multiple projects, quick load a project with a keyboard shortcut, and also easily see recent file that changed to help you find the 75th file your agent just wrote for you.

Recently, I've started to add a review interface where you can track changes, and add comments for your agent, and then instead of trying to do some complicated integration with an agent, it just has a copy button, and it copies all the comments, which context, and instructions for the agent how to reply.

I also find that I generate TONS of markdown junk during development, and I needed a way to handle it and keep it out of the main repository so I built this tool:

https://github.com/mschulkind-oss/swarf/

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#12

Definitely appreciate this. I already have Typora which is commercial but fantastic product so I don't really need another viewer but others for sure will. Glad you used Tauri to make this. I will check it out.

I tend to use 'bat' or 'glow' though I've tried 'mdlook' and 'mdcat' as well.

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#13
Somewhat related. I've also been generating lots of markdown files, which I've occasionally wanted to print out (so I can rest my eyes, or just read them somewhere other than my desk.) First class (free) printing support for rendered markdown seems like a lacuna in the overall ecosystem. I'm currently using the "print" plugin for VS Code, which opens rendered markdown in a browser window, which I print from there. Curious if anyone knows of better options?

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#14
Congrats on shipping!

Been also building this slowly, mostly assisting my kids.

What they built is Apple-only, since it's a native iOS/macOS app in Swift. It's been a very interesting experience for me, as even capable frontier LLMs still can't write Apple SwiftUI/AppKit properly. They constantly get the bridges wrong, and any feature prompt puts your previous architectural efforts at risk :)

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#18
First thing that blocks me from adopting it is lack of ability to adjust text size. I increase default text size on web pages and in my terminal. I'm old enough to need that. I can see the text at the default size but it strains my vision and is uncomfortable. Also, needs to be able to resize the columns / sidebars. I like the initial design. Hope you keep adding to it.

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#19
seems like vscode + preview is nearly the same?

I guess my key issue is, with files getting continuously modified by coding agents, I want really good integration with git and live update features. If the file just got edited, make it easy to see the new parts etc.

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

#20

First thing that blocks me from adopting it is lack of ability to adjust text size. I increase default text size on web pages and in my terminal. I'm old enough to need that. I can see the text at the default size but it strains my vision and is uncomfortable. Also, needs to be able to resize the columns / sidebars. I like the initial design. Hope you keep adding to it.

These are great suggestions I’ll get these added tomorrow!
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