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Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#71

There 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.

I always have a hard time understanding why anyone would want a dedicated markdown editor in the first place.

Obviously I am not the intended audience for them, but for me markdown is a fundamentally plain text format, Make nice looking plain text, and if you keep to certain well known patterns, you get a chance to run it through a typeset engine. Most of the point being the plain text. If the point were the typeset document, I would pick a better language.

As such, the ideal markdown editor is a text editor.

Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#72
post #71

There 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.

I always have a hard time understanding why anyone would want a dedicated markdown editor in the first place. Obviously I am not the intended audience for them, but for me markdown is a fundamentally plain text format, Make nice looking plain text, and if you keep to certain well known patterns, you get a chance to run it through a typeset engine. Most of the point being the plain text. If the point were the typeset…

a nice md editor feels good. when all the UI is out of the way it gives a minimalism feel and i start to notice tiny details like 'this font is really soothing' and thats where i imagine i want to put my markdown thoughts in. a pure interface

explorations in minimalism

Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#73
post #51

Why is everybody so stoked about Markdown? Isn't Asciidoc better in about every aspect?

Because with formats it's always about what's the most common, not what's necessarily the best or the most powerful one for one specific use case.

Every AI agent creates markdown files, Google Docs supports markdown etc.

Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#75
post #20

For Macs, there is iA Writer already. Why don't you make something equally polished for other platforms? I am genuinely interested, I always wanted iA Writer for Linux. Everything I tried falls short.

iA writer: neither free nor open source

Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#76

I've been looking for a markdown editor that let's me print the rendered view and have yet to find one. Which is quite surprising given how many there are. I just use my own webapp for now, should probably open source it in case anyone else is looking for this functionality. If you know of a nice mac app that let's me easily write / view and print markdown I'd love to hear from you!

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Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#77
post #5

I'm not sure people seeing "Made for Apple silicon" will expect an Electron app.

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.

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Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#78
I've compromised a lot with Electron (because I finally had to!) but never for a lightweight text editor app. Never!

Here are some alternatives if anyone is looking

https://editorio.crncevic.org

https://macdown.app/ (FOSS)

https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit (FOSS)

And if you must have an electron one then here are some FOSS options https://marktext.me

Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#79
I mean, most of us already use either IDE or a text editor for work, so why not just type non-work markdown files in them? Be it VS Code or JetBrains.

Thread hijacking but, I wonder more why Apple keeps the built-in TextEdit at its crappy state, it would be a fantastic text editor if fixed

Re: Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

#80

I mean, most of us already use either IDE or a text editor for work, so why not just type non-work markdown files in them? Be it VS Code or JetBrains. Thread hijacking but, I wonder more why Apple keeps the built-in TextEdit at its crappy state, it would be a fantastic text editor if fixed

Exactly - I have been using VS code for work as well as non-work markdown for more than 5 years now. Never had to look for any other note-taking tool.
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