I tried the application, and it looks great!<p>One thing Caret gets right that other Markdown editors (Macdown is what I currently use) don't is wordcount. In Caret, the document wordcount is always visible in the upper right corner, and if I select some text, the wordcount for the selection is displayed again. Others have mentioned the lack of live-preview as a deal-breaker, but I'm ok with this because of the easy, obvious shortcut. My main purpose with Markdown editors is writing READMEs and blog posts, and I usually don't keep live-preview open as I'm writing.<p>The one missing feature to keep me from pre-ordering is detection of jekyll YAML headers.
Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time.<p>The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.
The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: <a href="https://github.com/dvcrn/markright" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dvcrn/markright</a>
What annoys me about the flurry of Markdown editors for OS X is that they’re almost all electron/webkit based and as such, notoriously heavy. Doing a quick test with a 3KB Markdown file with 7 different editors (including Caret), I’m finding that they all take between 60MB-130MB of memory.<p>RAM may be at a surplus now, but in my mind there’s no reason for such a light task to be that resource intensive. What’d I’d really like to see is a sort of “sublime” approach to markdown editing — a cross-platform, ultra-light, lean and mean editor written in C++. If all of the functionality Sublime Text encompasses only requires ~30MB of memory, something as specialized as a Markdown editor ought to be able to be chopped down to two-thirds or even half of that.
I just want to say great job with this. Really really enjoying using it so far today. More than happy to preorder.<p>Well done, looking forward to 2.0!
So, it shows your text as a hybrid of plain <i>and</i> rich text?<p>Cool. I tried to write a similar app.<p>But I couldn't find a rich-text-view API that didn't eat all my CPU all the time.<p>OP: How did you manage to solve that issue? Or do you just ignore it and let the CPU go crazy?
For you vim lovers and Mac users out there, Marked 2 [1] in live reload mode works pretty great. For vim I like the vim-markdown plugin [2].<p>I get live preview, 9 different styles, code formatting, the ability to export to word, PDF, HTML, ODT, and RTF...and for blogging you get a word count at the bottom. It even analyzes your text for writing style like passive voice, long words, etc.<p>[1] - <a href="http://marked2app.com/" rel="nofollow">http://marked2app.com/</a>
[2] - <a href="https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown</a>
Getting a 404 on `<a href="http://cdn.caret.io/Caret.dmg`" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.caret.io/Caret.dmg`</a> - Has anyone else been able to download this morning? I also pre-ordered.
Any chance this will have a plugin language for exporters? I desperately want something like MarkdownPad but with the ability to write an exporter for BBCode.
I'm quite happy with VS Code and this Markdown CSS theme:<p><a href="https://github.com/mahonnaise/vs-code-markdown-theme" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mahonnaise/vs-code-markdown-theme</a><p>The automatic table formatting was pretty cool though (even if it's purely cosmetic).
What exactly makes this any better than MacDown (OSX), and Markdown Pad 2 (Windows)? Both have side live preview, and accomplish pretty much everything. There could be some QOL improements in them, but I don't see how caret.io is much better.
I can highly recommend ReText. <a href="https://github.com/retext-project/retext" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/retext-project/retext</a>
<a href="http://trymarkdown.com" rel="nofollow">http://trymarkdown.com</a><p>* Live preview<p>* Saves content in LocalStorage so it can persist closing the browser