StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown

(Context: Using ChromeOS)<p>The biggest flaw I see in this (and in several alternatives suggested below) is that it doesn&#x27;t support native browser spell check because it uses Ace (and in the case of alternatives, they do text rendering that isn&#x27;t native and isn&#x27;t detected as text). I use Markdown for taking outline based notes - and one of the biggest stopgaps is that I can spell check my work to make sure I&#x27;m not screwing up my own notes as I type during a lecture.<p>In that regard, the only thing I&#x27;ve found that meets this criteria isn&#x27;t a Markdown editor, it&#x27;s Writebox -- <a href="https://write-box.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write-box.appspot.com&#x2F;</a>

Very slick. Nice touch adding the delay between scrolling and moving the other page. Your logo looks like StackOverflow&#x27;s, is there a relationship between the two? Otherwise I&#x27;d consider changing it.<p>Also, the save&#x2F;download buttons (the first thing I look for in an app like this) are hidden behind a sliding panel. Move them front and center!

The best M↓ editor I&#x27;ve used is Haroo Pad[1]. I like it because you don&#x27;t need to visit a webpage to use it which makes it ideal for offline idea dumps while you&#x27;re on a plane for example.<p>[1] - <a href="http://pad.haroopress.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pad.haroopress.com&#x2F;</a>

I find it strange that the icon used is so similar to StackOverflow&#x27;s if this isn&#x27;t an app built by the same people.

What I want to see is an open source markdown editor that renders the preview as you type where you type (not side by side).<p>For an example check out <a href="http://mangomarkdown.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mangomarkdown.com&#x2F;</a> (which powers foldingtext).<p>There are a few projects that do this, but not open source, that I can find! It might not be that hard to change the current ones that go side by side to do this.<p>(I am planning to work on one, but have not gotten around to doing much, and will probably take a different approach to it than this)

Nicely done! Throughout the day I&#x27;m very often jotting down notes in markdown and then pasting them into a Gist to share with someone.<p>The frustrating part is not seeing how it&#x27;s going to be formatted while I&#x27;m actually taking the notes. This app could solve that problem. I&#x27;ll give it a try this week.<p>Some questions&#x2F;comments:<p>1. What are you using for the popover tour that appears the first time someone visits the page?<p>2. The logo looks <i>very</i> much like the Stack Overflow logo[1]. Are you associated with that group? If not I&#x27;d consider changing it.<p>3. I&#x27;m familiar with but haven&#x27;t used Epic Editor[2] by Oscar Godson and friends[3]. Have you checked it out by any chance?<p>Again, great work and I&#x27;ll be giving this a try over the next week or so.<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.moovweb.com/content/uploads/2013/09/stackoverflow-logo.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.moovweb.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;stackoverflo...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://epiceditor.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;epiceditor.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http://epiceditor.com/#credits" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;epiceditor.com&#x2F;#credits</a>

Very well done!<p>Would love to see it integrated with Etherpad somehow so that several people could colaborate on the same document.<p>We&#x27;re often using Etherpad to collect notes during meetings. Converting them to a nice formatting in real time would be nice for those who are only following the document.<p>Synchronization with ownclowd would be nice as well.

I was searching for the best way to edit online content and Markdown was obvious choice. Until I saw what Medium has done. I believe that WYSIWYG is the only way. You still get emphasys on text but with no need to learn any kind of markup no matter how human readable it is.<p>On the other hand Medium&#x27;s approach is tied to their visual style and design, it does not support many things I&#x27;d wish it would. Still, I&#x27;m rooting for WYSIWYG in the future.<p>[edit] Sorry, forgot to add that nevertheless this Markdown editor is impressive.

Since we&#x27;re dropping links here and there, here&#x27;s the also free and open source Markdown editor I created. It&#x27;s also minimalist, and unflavored: <a href="http://markdown.pioul.fr/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markdown.pioul.fr&#x2F;</a><p>The source is on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/pioul/MinimalistOnlineMarkdownEditor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pioul&#x2F;MinimalistOnlineMarkdownEditor</a>

I quite like it, the UI is intuitive and functional.<p>Sort of related: Is there a library or editor that could be used to create both markup for the web as well as export to LaTeX syntax? My use case: Software documentation where I&#x27;d like to have both a Wiki as well as creating a professional looking PDF document (or even print it for the old fashioned folks). That sort of functionality would be worth paying for in my case.

Markdown needs nested ordered lists. I would like to convert legal documents to markdown, but I can&#x27;t. For example:<p>1. Item one<p>2. Item two<p><pre><code> a. Subitem a b. Subitem b</code></pre>

We recently just launched a very early dev preview of our markdown editor. It integrates directly with github. I would love some feedback <a href="https://alpha.banyan.co/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alpha.banyan.co&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m curious what are all the &quot;Application Cache Progress event&quot; showing up in the console? There&#x27;s a different URL for each event but it doesn&#x27;t seem to correspond to an actual HTTP request?

Very cool and really well done. I really wished it would only write in a single spot on dropbox not the whole thing... I found the source and might change that in my own fork. Very very cool stuff!

this arena is getting kind of interesting, what with all of the new tools being mounted, and the variations, in terms of interface, wysiwyg-ness, storage locations, online&#x2F;offline wrinkles, auto-save-timer idiosyncrasies, and so on... plus, as a long-time observer of markdown, there are a lot of butts that are going to get bitten when people discover the inconsistencies and edge-cases that arise between the different flavors. so it&#x27;s gonna be quite fascinating to see the shakeouts that&#x27;ll happen.<p>-bowerbird

This is good! I have been using stackoverflow&#x27;s wmd which I host on heroku: <a href="http://wmd.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wmd.heroku.com</a>

Ah, it&#x27;s open. took me a while: <a href="https://github.com/benweet/stackedit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;benweet&#x2F;stackedit</a>

This is awesome! I&#x27;ve wanted something exactly like this for ages for publishing to my blog! You are my hero - at least for the night :p

I just love the LateX support. I was actually just looking for something similar.<p>Great work, the editor is pretty impressing even without that feature.

This is amazing.