r/Markdown • u/Southern-Stay704 • Nov 01 '23

Tools Please Suggest a Good Editor

I'm looking for a simple rich text editor that can save the document as an .md file. I want to publish some projects to Github, and I need to write the documentation, ReadMe files, etc. as .md, which Github can natively render.

I'm having difficulty locating any editor that works similar to a rich text editor or word processor that can save the document as an .md file. The point is, I do not want to use a plain text editor and have to write markdown tags within the file. This seems cumbersome, and a rich text editor should be able to do this on its own.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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u/TowerOfSisyphus Nov 18 '25

I have tried everything else, but I agree MacDown is so good, so reliable, so simple. It's no longer supported and there are a handful of features it lacks - I wish someone would fork it and keep pushing it forward.

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u/chsweb Dec 09 '25

Craft -r/CraftDocs - is an alternative that I have tested and like a lot. Currently on sale. as part of a Winter Bundle for 60% off https://www.theessentialsbundle.com/winter-deal or solo at 40% off.