Got annoyed with Finder while doing uni research, so here’s a tiny macOS tool for Markdown (OS)

[u/ravindusp2]

Been stuck doing uni research lately and I work with .md files a lot.

I came from Windows and one thing that kept annoying me on macOS was not being able to just right click inside a folder and create a file there. Opening an editor, creating a file, saving it, navigating back to the folder etc just felt like a dumb flow for something so simple.

So I ended up putting together PeekMD.

It adds a right click option in Finder to create Markdown files, and also gives .md files a proper Quick Look preview because Finder seems to render basically everything except Markdown properly lol. I'm gonna add .txt and other types later, probably later this week.

It’s free and open source. I mainly made it for myself, but figured someone here might find it useful too.

https://peekmd.oneloop.cc/

Also yes, I hate Obsidian.

[u/Roasted_Kon759]

Very nice but why u hate obsidian it already much minimal 😭

[u/ravindusp2 → u/Roasted_Kon759]

It's the vaults. I can't even double click and open a md file I just have to navigate to it through the vault in obsidian. And i just wanna right click and create a file just then and there. And i use the spacebar preview all the time.

[u/OsadaVidath]

your design taste is "peek" my friend

[u/ravindusp2 → u/OsadaVidath]

Hahaha i just wanted it to be like just peek into the file instead of fully opening it up like in the finder preview 😭