how is it different from obsidian?
Obsidian's closed-source is it not?
Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
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Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
will expect an Electron app. Whoops! Thanks for the warning. I'm out. Shame, too. I've been looking for a new text editor. Someone else in this thread recommended SubEtha. I'll take a look there, instead. Happy to keep my Mac Electron-free.
Out of curiosity; how come?
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Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
will expect an Electron app. Whoops! Thanks for the warning. I'm out. Shame, too. I've been looking for a new text editor. Someone else in this thread recommended SubEtha. I'll take a look there, instead. Happy to keep my Mac Electron-free.
Out of curiosity; how come?
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Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#34ANOTHER.md
YETANOTHER.md
YETANOTHERAGAIN.md
Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#35There must be something fascinating about writing Markdown apps - either it scratches an itch, or AI is really good at creating them. There's a flood of them on r/macapps and similar places.
In recent years, I've written two!
I wrote my own wiki to use as a personal knowledge base to replace Dokuwiki because I wanted a simpler Markdown-based solution written in Python. I started it during the pandemic times and all of the code in there to date was written by hand. All of it was pretty easy except the CSS/layout parts which I'm just not very good at. It took months of free time to get it where I wanted.
I also recently created a day-to-day notes and daily planner app that's basically a bunch of markdown notes. I spent about a week of free time defining the problem, setting constraints, and refining with an LLM that wrote almost all of the code for me. I've been using it for months and it's working great.
The wiki uses Markdown because I browse it just as often as I edit and I appreciate some modicum of basic formatting. The daily notes app doesn't really _have_ to use markdown, I've just gotten accustomed to writing Markdown pretty much everywhere.
(These are on github, but I'm not posting the links here because I don't want to or care about promoting them.)
Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
will expect an Electron app. Whoops! Thanks for the warning. I'm out. Shame, too. I've been looking for a new text editor. Someone else in this thread recommended SubEtha. I'll take a look there, instead. Happy to keep my Mac Electron-free.
Out of curiosity; how come?
Some people think it’s bad performance and bloat. They learned it ten years ago and haven’t questioned it
Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#37I wish we can have a good markdown support with images ala GitHub (good days).
But GitHub has _bad_ Markdown support. GFM is the reason why so many projects on GitHub are besot with Markdown that's unreadable in a text editor.
Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#38Electron? No thanks.
Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#39Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
#40I've started getting warnings from MacDown about how it'll stop working soon because Rosetta or something. I like the side by side view, but sadly this isn't that. edit: Oh, electron?!
There are a ton, there is Typora (paid) and there is https://github.com/joelbqz/writer-computer (Tauri)
But Macdown is a universal binary? https://github.com/schuyler/macdown3000 So it should just keep working