Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor • Hacker News Board

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by Hitton » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 9:04 AM UTC

kunai wrote: post #7

Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality. Nice UI though.

I agree, but I feel it's justified using Electron in this case, because Markdown can be combined with any HTML. So when you need a rendering engine, you might as well use Chromium's from Electron.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by keroro » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 9:27 AM UTC

Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta.

https://github.com/marktext/marktext

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by SyneRyder » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

kunai wrote: post #7

Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality. Nice UI though.

Typora is probably the best Electron app I've ever seen, but I ultimately switched to the MarkdownLivePreview package for Sublime Text. I definitely prefer having a more native app over Electron.

[1] https://packagecontrol.io/packages/MarkdownLivePreview

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 10:45 AM UTC

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Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by mikeruhl » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 10:45 AM UTC

keroro wrote: post #12

Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta. https://github.com/marktext/marktext

this is really good to know. I've been using Typora for the past year and, at this point, I can't live without it for making md files before committing. Thanks!

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by haraball » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 10:58 AM UTC

keroro wrote: post #12

Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta. https://github.com/marktext/marktext

Thanks for sharing, this editor has quite a few nice features! Using @ for quickly inserting different markdown formattings is a nice touch compared to having to remember them.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by mjclemente » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 10:59 AM UTC

After trying nearly every markdown editor out there (Mou, Byword, Macdown, iA Writer, and Caret, to name a few), I found Typora. I've been using it for the past year and find it delightful - it does everything that I want a markdown editor to do, in an elegant and intuitive way. I'm not tied to the company in any way, just really love the software (and hope it succeeds). I'll happily pay to support it when it comes out of beta.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by hs86 » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 11:07 AM UTC

Most features can be covered by a few VSCode extensions like these:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.m...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.v...

Other code editors probably have similar extensions and syncing the notes could be done with Dropbox/git/whatever...

I am also surprised how well https://tabnine.com/ works with auto-completion for arbitrary notes.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by thomasfl » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

keroro wrote: post #12

Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta. https://github.com/marktext/marktext

Thanks! Typora looks like fork of Mark Text. Their both very good.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by tsp » Wed, Nov 06, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

I tried about every noteworthy Markdown editor in recent years. Typora is the one I am still using. Great work. I hope they don’t ask for a subscription fee, but one time payment, once out of beta.