Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marktext&#x2F;marktext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marktext&#x2F;marktext</a>

Due to the bugs in Apple Notes on macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, I just spent some time evaluating as many note taking apps for Mac as possible. I ended up picking <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ia.net&#x2F;writer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ia.net&#x2F;writer</a><p>Typora was interesting but it was very buggy, and doesn&#x27;t handle tags which are important for notes.<p>My main criteria were an open file format, ideally editing plain text files on disk using Markdown as the formatting. This ruled out apps like OneNote, InkDrop, Standard Notes and others.<p>If you don&#x27;t mind about having a proprietary database so long as the data can be exported to Markdown, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bear.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bear.app</a> is my favourite so long as you&#x27;re on an Apple device.<p>I will also be interested in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvultra.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvultra.com&#x2F;</a> once it comes out of private beta.<p>I published my full writeup today at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidmytton.blog&#x2F;the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-markdown-open-format-cross-platform&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidmytton.blog&#x2F;the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-m...</a>

Most features can be covered by a few VSCode extensions like these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=yzhang.markdown-all-in-one" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=yzhang.m...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=mushan.vscode-paste-image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=mushan.v...</a><p>Other code editors probably have similar extensions and syncing the notes could be done with Dropbox&#x2F;git&#x2F;whatever...<p>I am also surprised how well <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tabnine.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tabnine.com&#x2F;</a> works with auto-completion for arbitrary notes.

Are most of you using dedicated markdown editors?<p>What about using your code editor&#x27;s markdown plugin and real time preview in a browser?<p>For example with Vim, one of the plugins launches a browser and then you get a real time preview while you type in Vim. The nice thing is you can tell it to use a specific CSS file so you can get a 100% copy of GitHub&#x27;s README styles. It even syncs your cursor if you want that behavior.<p>I demo&#x27;d the above set up here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;writing-and-previewing-markdown-in-real-time-with-vim-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;writing-and-previewing-markdo...</a>

After trying nearly every markdown editor out there (Mou, Byword, Macdown, iA Writer, and Caret, to name a few), I found Typora. I&#x27;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&#x27;m not tied to the company in any way, just really love the software (and hope it succeeds). I&#x27;ll happily pay to support it when it comes out of beta.

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.

Using this since at least two years and it constantly got better and expanded. The one thing that I still love this for is that it starts quick and it is a incredible way to explain markdown to beginners.<p>One thing that could improve is the update mechanism which sometimes distrafts you from writing at startup, but that is really a tiny nitpick.

Beautiful editor, one of my favorites, and surprisingly free and multi-platform: works in Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

I think this is one of the only wysiwyg editors for markdown with latex support. Have been using it for the past half year and it works like a charm!

I have used Boostnote and Remarkable, on Ubuntu. After using Boostnote for a while, it started to bug me because it&#x27;s slow load time (it&#x27;s an Electron app), so I searched for something native and found Remarkable, which is simple and really fast. It just lacks some of the organization features that Boostnote offers.

Is there any JavaScript-free WYSIWYG Markdown editor?

I&#x27;m happier with retext (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;retext-project&#x2F;retext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;retext-project&#x2F;retext</a>). Fully open-sourced, live preview, and taking ~50% less resources than Typora to deliver the same features. If I&#x27;m not using vim, I&#x27;m in live preview mode in retext.

LaTeX coverage is as much as I need, and it renders to SVG when exporting as HTML. You&#x27;ve got yourself one more user!

You can’t beat a plain texteditor or html form in terms of minimalism. Seems like the wrong point to highlight

Has anyone found a decent solution to real time rendering of ReStructruedText (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ReStructuredText" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ReStructuredText</a>)?

Hard to say that it is &quot;truly minimal&quot; 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.<p>Nice UI though.

Wow! WordPerfect reimagined.

I keep coming back to simplenote (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.simplenote.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.simplenote.com&#x2F;</a>) each time I try one of these &quot;minimal markdown editors&quot;. Works on every platform I&#x27;ve tried, open source, and maintained. I enjoy seeing folks making improvements to the minimal model, but I personally haven&#x27;t found any life-changing enough to switch. Keep recommending options, though, I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing what folks create!

I use it to make quit drafts, real nice to instantly have markdown markup. would tip this to people who start wqrint in markdown

It’s OK but not that astonishing. Still prefer to write in the default notepad because it just werks

Been using Typora for almost two years. Really like it. Use cases might be a bit limited.<p>Using Notion.so on work.

I like the WYSIWYG and there&#x27;s a handful of useful features, good job!