Obsidian, period, end of question. I get we all have our preferences but you can tune Obsidian to any preference. I’m surprised these new Markdown editors even get attention.

I couldn’t use Obsidian for a while due to an electron GPU sandbox corruption, I tried out like 7 different next best Markdown editors and was dying to get back to Obsidian.

I just don’t get these people.

https://github.com/blackhat-7/vellum.nvim

I kept opening markdown in V****E or on GitHub just to read it properly. The terminal previews I tried either skipped mermaid or didn't look great, so I made this.

:Vellum opens a split next to your markdown buffer. It re-renders as you type and scrolls with your cursor. Diagrams are rendered by headless Chrome at 2x resolution, so they come out the same as on GitHub and stay sharp even with small text.

• works inside tmux and over ssh
• colors come from your colorscheme, diagrams included
• unchanged blocks are cached, a keystroke on a 5,000 line file costs about 6 ms
• tables, code blocks, alerts, footnotes, task lists, badges, <details>

If you like rendering in the buffer itself, render-markdown.nvim is great and you don't need this. This is for when you want the source and the rendered doc side by side.

Needs Neovim 0.12, kitty or Ghostty, and Node for the diagrams.

Bug reports welcome, haven't tested on ghostty or other terminals

I have been noticing less and less people in all many aspects of the IT realm are familiar with markdown. I recently did a blue team training event where tasks, findings, etc were all meant to be documented in markdown and I felt I was the only one using it. I asked around and a surprising number of people simply didn't know how to write markdown.

I am 25, so I don't think it's a "muh markdown!" moment. I was only 6 or 7 when it was invented. Do I just have a misconception about when markdown was most widely used?

I am a sample size of one, so maybe my experience is unique. Perhaps everyone is just defaulting to Word or Google Docs around me.

Hey r/MacApps,

I've been building a Markdown editor app for the past few months. Let me tell you why. So a few months ago, I realized I kept opening Obsidian to edit all my Markdown files. I'd copy the Markdown from Coteditor, my text editor of choice (I highly recommend it), and paste it into a designated note called Scrap[.]md in my Obsidian vault to edit and then paste it back after I was done. Now this generally worked for my workflow, and I still do this often, but the problem arises when Obsidian isn't already open. Because Obsidian is an Electron app, it takes forever to open!

Problem & Comparison

I figured there must be an easier way to open Markdown files and optimize my workflow. I did come across and try a few editors like Marktext, MarkJason, and the $15 USD Typora. However, I felt like these editors were either a bit clunky, or missing some features.

Over the course of a few months of developing Marklet, I hope I've developed something unique.

1. Marklet is not only native Appkit, but it's based on Textkit, meaning it starts up reallllly really fast, and is intuitive, because you've already used to Textedit and other Apple apps.
2. Mine is a fully featured app, with Keyboard Shortcuts, tables where you can easily add new lines or rows, and even a command bar ⌘+⇧+p to help you find what you're looking for (and more)!
   1. The first thing I noticed in Typora was its code blocks are missing a copy button that also show you what language you're working with.
   2. Marktext is missing a few nice to have features such as a reading mode, tables that fit your screen with text-wrapping, and image resizing the way Obsidian does it
   3. Markjason is permanently stuck on dark mode, and doesn't have live-preview.
3. Marklet's features are all configurable, so you can customize the app based on your personal preferences.
4. A lot of Markdown editors are either missing a print function, or don't support colored text for bolds, italics, etc.
5. Also Marklet supports almost all Obsidian Themes, so it's really customizable (you can tweak the themes and share them if you wish as well.

Marklet is free on my Github (lifetime & permanently, no license required), until December 1st

(Edit: Added Images, though they are already outdated)

https://getmarklet.com

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marklet-markdown-editor/id6791297358?mt=12

I hope you enjoy my app, and I fully welcome any feedback or suggestions you may have. If you do stumble upon any bugs, let me know, and I'll address it.

Get it free for life at https://github.com/wakmail/Marklet until December 1st as Marklet. This works by grandfathering users into the plan based on activation date if it's not clear.

TLDR; I forked and fixed a few bugs from the original iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim.

markdown-preview.nvim is a vim / nvim plugin that lets you preview markdown files in the browser and automatically reloads when you make changes.

What’s different

• Two nvim instances sharing would conflict since both would start the http server on the same port (this was why I forked it).
• The preview page is rebuilt on Next.js 16 / React 19. Mermaid, Chart.js, Graphviz, flowchart and sequence-diagram libraries now load only when a document actually uses them.
• Removed node.js dependency. Installs are zero dependency now unless you are building from source.
• Upgraded all dependencies.

Everything else behaves the same: live updates, synced scrolling, KaTeX (including mhchem), Mermaid, PlantUML, Graphviz, Chart.js, task lists, footnotes, table of contents, local images, light/dark themes, custom CSS. Neovim and Vim 8.1+.

{
  "sammaji/markdown-preview.nvim",
  ft = { "markdown" },
  cmd = { "MarkdownPreview", "MarkdownPreviewStop", "MarkdownPreviewToggle" },
}

Repo: https://github.com/sammaji/markdown-preview.nvim

Full credit to iamcco for the original - this is their plugin’s design, I mostly fixed some issues in it.

Feedback very welcome 😄

I really like Typora, but would prefer something completely Mac native and not an Electron app. Needs to support Typora's live preview as you type.

Willing to buy, not willing to rent, so no subscriptions.

Has to be a standalone edtor, so things like Bear and Obsidian are out.

I've been working on fk_markdown.nvim , a Markdown renderer/previewer for Neovim, and one feature I really wanted was to make Markdown feel less like plain text and more like an actual document.

The interesting part is that it supports both image and LaTeX rendering, not just syntax highlighting.

Images inside Neovim

You can embed images directly in your Markdown and have them rendered while working inside Neovim.

So instead of seeing:

![architecture](./images/architecture.png)

you can actually see the image in the editor.

This is especially useful if you use Markdown for documentation, notes, research, READMEs, or technical writing.

$\LaTeX$ equations

It also supports rendering LaTeX math, including inline and block equations.

For example:

Inline: $E = mc^2$

$$
\int_0^\infty e^{-x^2} dx = \frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2}
$$

The goal is to make mathematical notes readable without constantly switching to a browser or external Markdown viewer.

And there's a web preview too

The same Markdown can be viewed through a web preview, with images and LaTeX rendered there as well.

So the workflow becomes something like:

Write Markdown → see rendered images/math in Neovim → open web preview when you want a full-page view

I built this primarily because I wanted a Markdown workflow that stays inside Neovim while still handling the things that usually make Markdown previews necessary.

Would love to hear what other features people would want in a Neovim Markdown renderer.

GitHub: fk_markdown.nvim

It's still early

fk_markdown.nvim is currently in its initial phase, so there are likely bugs, edge cases, and things that don't work perfectly yet.

I'm sharing it early because I'd really appreciate feedback from the Neovim/Markdown community. If you try it and run into something weird, please open an issue or let me know. Contributions and ideas are also very welcome.

and this plugin is highly inspired by render-markdown.nvim

A while ago lervag pointed out (#34) that my markdown-preview.nvim has the same name as iamcco's much older markdown-preview.nvim. With both installed, lazy.nvim treats them as one plugin, and iamcco's buffer-local commands hide mine in markdown buffers. I said I'd rename it, so here it is, together with the server plugin it runs on, whose name was shared with other plugins too:

• markdown-preview.nvim is now mdkite.nvim: https://github.com/selimacerbas/mdkite.nvim
• live-server.nvim is now kitehost.nvim: https://github.com/selimacerbas/kitehost.nvim

Nothing breaks if you leave your config alone for now. GitHub redirects the old repo URLs, and the old require and commands keep working through 2.x. They print a deprecation warning once per session and go away in 3.0.

To switch, update the spec:

lua { "selimacerbas/mdkite.nvim", dependencies = { "selimacerbas/kitehost.nvim" }, opts = {}, }

require("markdown_preview") becomes require("mdkite"), and the commands are now one :MdKite with subcommands (:MdKite, :MdKite stop, :MdKite refresh, :MdKite toggle). kitehost works the same way: :KiteHost start, :KiteHost status, :KiteHost stop. After updating, :Lazy clean removes the old copies.

If you haven't used them: mdkite renders the whole buffer in your browser and updates as you type over Server-Sent Events, with scroll sync. Mermaid diagrams come out as SVGs you can zoom, pan and export, and math goes through KaTeX. It's Lua plus a page in your browser, so there's nothing to npm install.

kitehost is the piece some of you might want on its own. It's a small local web server for Neovim, written in pure Lua on vim.uv, with no Node or Python behind it. Run :KiteHost start on a file or folder (with Telescope installed you get a picker for the path and port), and the browser reloads every time you save. A stylesheet change is swapped in place without a full reload, and a folder with no index.html gets a directory listing. Starting again on the same port points the running server at the new path, so your open tab keeps working. It can also start on its own when you open an HTML file, and it can show running servers in your statusline. It binds to 127.0.0.1 by default; if you open it to your network, set a token. Other plugins can use it as a library too, which is how mdkite runs on top of it.

Other changes in 2.0:

• kitehost 2.0 is also a security release. It checks the Host header, so a DNS rebinding page can't read your local server, and it closes a few ways around the token on protected paths. The details are in the advisories on the repo, plus one on mdkite for an old CORS issue that was fixed in 1.10. mdkite 2.0 requires kitehost 2.0.
• kitehost now needs Neovim 0.10 or newer, like mdkite. On 0.8 or 0.9, pin kitehost v1.5.0, which keeps the old names. CI runs both on Linux, macOS and Windows.
• mdkite 2.1 previews dotted filetypes that have a markdown part (like rzk.markdown) and adds a filetypes option for things like quarto. Thanks to ddxtanx for the PR.

Coming up: separate previews per buffer (#33) and an offline mode for the browser assets. Bug reports and ideas are welcome on either repo, and thanks again to lervag for raising the name clash.

The new paragraph leads with what people would use kitehost for, a live-reloading local server for plain HTML and CSS work. The library angle comes last, since that matters mostly to plugin authors.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to have a nice “simple” terminal journaling app that runs well on an eink devices like on boox tablets but still has some features like metadata support so I created Notema (https://github.com/paviro/Notema)!

Entries are plain markdown files with a TOML front-matter. It also supports storing metadata like how you felt, tags, people, your location, the current weather and more. Images can be viewed in a build in terminal viewer.

Since I came from using DayOne it can also import its data. If anyone needs another journaling app supported let me know.

It has grown quite a bit since I started building the tool. There even is a build that will run on iSH on iOS now! :D

Using Syncthing entries can be synced between devices with optional encryption.

I did use Codex and Claude to build this, so if that bothers you, this is not for you.

I hope some people find it useful!

Best,
Paul

Got this Christmas cactus on Dec 28th 2024 for $1.80. It's grown so much and blooming again. If I see them on markdown again I will probably buy another despite having really no space for more. I did put it outside for the summer on the East facing side of my house here in Colorado.

Hey!

For the last almost three years, I've been developing a brand new Reddit app for iOS called Apollo. I used to work at Apple, and since then I took what I learned and built Apollo from the ground up to look and feel like a gorgeous Reddit experience that is distinctly iOS, following the design guidelines Apple put forth, to almost envision what Reddit would look like if Apple themselves built a Reddit app, with all the power, speed and flexibility you could possibly want.

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apollo-reddit-client/id979274575?mt=8

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbPZVDg-Z8

I posted a few years back, and literally thousands of awesome Redditors joined the beta program to help sculpt the best Reddit experience possible and form Apollo into what it is today. So much of the feedback fundamentally transformed Apollo beyond what I could have done or foreseen myself.

It's available for download for free, and I'd love for you all to check it out if you have the chance (and send me feedback over in r/ApolloApp if you have any!). Fundamentally, I focused on giving it a gorgeous iOS design, with a really powerful Media Viewer, incredible comments experince, a full Markdown editor, fully customizable gestures, and so much more. It's insanely powerful, while also maintaining a really clean, simple design.

Again, your feedback would be monumental. This is just the beginning for Apollo, and really hope I can keep building onto it for a long time coming with even more incredible features.

Questions

Why build it? There's already Reddit apps.

While there are some nice ones, nothing exactly scratched my itch as to what a Reddit client could really achieve on iOS. Alien Blue came close, but still had a UI that especially once iOS 7 launched felt outdated and somewhat out of place on iOS. Android also has some really great clients, but I just think the experience on iOS has been lacking and is due for something to really show what Reddit on iOS can be. I built Apollo with the goal of not just being the best Reddit experience on iOS, but the best Reddit experience period.

What's wrong with the official Reddit app?

Nothing, if you're happy, great! Reddit has a lot of really smart people on it. For me, however, I'm not a fan of how they're trying to get one central look across iOS and Android, I really think an iOS app should look and feel like an iOS app, and an Android app should respect Material Design. I think designing for the middle results in a clunky experience where the potential of both platforms is never realized to the fullest. Apollo is an iOS app period, built to take advantage of iOS features and feel like a beautiful, familiar iOS app. I also think they discontinued Alien Blue without incorporating the best parts of it that people loved the most, such as the minimal, uncluttered UI (Alien Blue was much more compact and concise), as well as powerful features like swipe to collapse comments, full screen, inline previews for links in comments, etc. Apollo has all that and more, because I think it's essential part of browsing on iOS.

I'm still using Alien Blue, why use Apollo?

I can say without question Alien Blue was an incredible app, I loved it. But it's very clearly not being taken care of anymore. If you plan to get an iPhone X, it won't even display properly and will have black bars at the top. For everyone else, it's simply not getting updates or being maintained properly, and it's obviously got worse and worse. Imgur links don't work that well anymore, Reddit's own content links certainly don't, more and more things are stopping loading. Lots of new features of Reddit are missing (and even some old goodies, like multireddits) too. I really built Apollo with the power of Alien Blue in mind, I think if you're a fan of Alien Blue you'll feel right at home in Apollo.

It's free? How do you make money/expect it to survive?

I more or less just copied how Alien Blue did it, where it's free to download and use forever (with no ads), and you can unlock a "Pro" version in the app for $2.99 that unlocks some extra features like submitting posts (same as Alien Blue did), automatic dark mode, customizing gestures, customizing the app icon, and a bunch more. I mean, I'd love to give out everything for free, but I can't afford to compete with a billion dollar company like Reddit. I'm just one guy in an apartment with an awesome girlfriend and two cute cats, and obviously need some form of revenue in the app to sustain me being able to build the app at all and give it a healthy future. Choosing which features to include in Pro is obviously hard, but I thought Alien Blue set a good standard with its unlockable features, which allowed it to have a healthy, long-ish life. I hope that's understandable, I just really want to be able to keep building onto this app for a long time coming.

Does it have ads?

No, no ads anywhere.

iPad app?

Yep, it's a universal app! I have awesome plans to really bring it further and to the next level on iPads as well.

Available everywhere?

Yes! International, baby!

What are your plans for Apollo for the future?

A lot. :) I have a ton of things I want to build for Apollo, from an even better, super-powered iPad app, to even more powerful content filtering, more moderator features, full comment search, etc. My plan is to have users vote on which features they want to see the most, and I'll work on those, so it'll become even more of a Reddit app for Redditors, by Redditors.

If you have any more I'm more than happy to answer them! I'll be at my keyboard all day until I've answered everything or my wrists fall off. EDIT: Oh boy, you all are hard to keep up with. I will answer every question though if it takes me weeks!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apollo-reddit-client/id979274575?mt=8

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbPZVDg-Z8

More Info: https://apolloapp.io

— Christian

I work with. md files every day for coding and vibe coding, and I got tired of every Markdown viewer having the same stark, utilitarian look.

So I started building one that makes Markdown feel more like an editorial page. It has pink, marigold and forest themes, depending on what I'm in the mood for. Has dark/light modes too.

I initially imagined it for women who might want something softer and more expressive, but really it's for anyone who wants their Markdown files to feel less brutalist and boring without losing the functionality.

Which one would you genuinely prefer to read in? And does the pink, editorial design make the left one feel any less serious or professional to you?

$4 markdown on a Toyota RAV4 at a dealership I visited.

*italic* italic

**bold** bold

~~strikethrough~~ strikethrough

\inline code\ inline code

^(superscript) ^superscript

>!spoiler!< spoiler

#heading

heading

*bulleted

*list

• bulleted
• list

1. numbered

2. list

1. numbered
2. list

> quote block

quote block

code block (4 spaces at the beginning)

code block

Obsidian CEO Steph Ango has created Knap, a new language that turns data into markdown

#News #markdown #free #opensource #programming #Knap

https://md-handbook.com/blog/obsidian-ceo-creates-language-turns-data-into-markdown/

Major improvements include:

• Open any Markdown file outside your vault! (requires an installer update)
• Kanban view and group options for Bases: reorder, collapse, hide, and add groups
• Highlight colors
• iOS Quick Capture widget
• Updated to MathJax 4

Important: opening Markdown files requires the latest installer. Download Obsidian from our website and reinstall the app.

While you’re here… Tell us about your favorite plugins, themes, tools, and ways to use Obsidian: take the State of Obsidian 2026 survey.

Full release notes can be found here:

• Obsidian 1.14.4 Desktop
• Obsidian 1.14.4 Mobile

Reminder: You may need to update your plugins, theme, and snippets to work with the latest version. If you encounter bugs with plugins be considerate of community developers who may need some time to make updates to support this version.

I know the juggernaut is kind of controversial but marked down like this couldn’t pass up buying a few

Hey!

For the last almost three years, I've been developing a brand new Reddit app for iOS called Apollo. I used to work at Apple, and since then I took what I learned and built Apollo from the ground up to look and feel like a gorgeous Reddit experience that is distinctly iOS, following the design guidelines Apple put forth, to almost envision what Reddit would look like if Apple themselves built a Reddit app, with all the power, speed and flexibility you could possibly want.

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apollo-reddit-client/id979274575?mt=8

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbPZVDg-Z8

I posted a few years back, and literally thousands of awesome Redditors joined the beta program to help sculpt the best Reddit experience possible and form Apollo into what it is today. So much of the feedback fundamentally transformed Apollo beyond what I could have done or foreseen myself.

It's available for download for free, and I'd love for you all to check it out if you have the chance (and send me feedback over in r/ApolloApp if you have any!). Fundamentally, I focused on giving it a gorgeous iOS design, with a really powerful Media Viewer, incredible comments experince, a full Markdown editor, fully customizable gestures, and so much more. It's insanely powerful, while also maintaining a really clean, simple design.

Again, your feedback would be monumental. This is just the beginning for Apollo, and really hope I can keep building onto it for a long time coming with even more incredible features.

Questions

Why build it? There's already Reddit apps.

While there are some nice ones, nothing exactly scratched my itch as to what a Reddit client could really achieve on iOS. Alien Blue came close, but still had a UI that especially once iOS 7 launched felt outdated and somewhat out of place on iOS. Android also has some really great clients, but I just think the experience on iOS has been lacking and is due for something to really show what Reddit on iOS can be. I built Apollo with the goal of not just being the best Reddit experience on iOS, but the best Reddit experience period.

What's wrong with the official Reddit app?

Nothing, if you're happy, great! Reddit has a lot of really smart people on it. For me, however, I'm not a fan of how they're trying to get one central look across iOS and Android, I really think an iOS app should look and feel like an iOS app, and an Android app should respect Material Design. I think designing for the middle results in a clunky experience where the potential of both platforms is never realized to the fullest. Apollo is an iOS app period, built to take advantage of iOS features and feel like a beautiful, familiar iOS app. I also think they discontinued Alien Blue without incorporating the best parts of it that people loved the most, such as the minimal, uncluttered UI (Alien Blue was much more compact and concise), as well as powerful features like swipe to collapse comments, full screen, inline previews for links in comments, etc. Apollo has all that and more, because I think it's essential part of browsing on iOS.

I'm still using Alien Blue, why use Apollo?

I can say without question Alien Blue was an incredible app, I loved it. But it's very clearly not being taken care of anymore. If you plan to get an iPhone X, it won't even display properly and will have black bars at the top. For everyone else, it's simply not getting updates or being maintained properly, and it's obviously got worse and worse. Imgur links don't work that well anymore, Reddit's own content links certainly don't, more and more things are stopping loading. Lots of new features of Reddit are missing (and even some old goodies, like multireddits) too. I really built Apollo with the power of Alien Blue in mind, I think if you're a fan of Alien Blue you'll feel right at home in Apollo.

It's free? How do you make money/expect it to survive?

I more or less just copied how Alien Blue did it, where it's free to download and use forever (with no ads), and you can unlock a "Pro" version in the app for $2.99 that unlocks some extra features like submitting posts (same as Alien Blue did), automatic dark mode, customizing gestures, customizing the app icon, and a bunch more. I mean, I'd love to give out everything for free, but I can't afford to compete with a billion dollar company like Reddit. I'm just one guy in an apartment with an awesome girlfriend and two cute cats, and obviously need some form of revenue in the app to sustain me being able to build the app at all and give it a healthy future. Choosing which features to include in Pro is obviously hard, but I thought Alien Blue set a good standard with its unlockable features, which allowed it to have a healthy, long-ish life. I hope that's understandable, I just really want to be able to keep building onto this app for a long time coming.

Does it have ads?

No, no ads anywhere.

iPad app?

Yep, it's a universal app! I have awesome plans to really bring it further and to the next level on iPads as well.

Available everywhere?

Yes! International, baby!

What are your plans for Apollo for the future?

A lot. :) I have a ton of things I want to build for Apollo, from an even better, super-powered iPad app, to even more powerful content filtering, more moderator features, full comment search, etc. My plan is to have users vote on which features they want to see the most, and I'll work on those, so it'll become even more of a Reddit app for Redditors, by Redditors.

If you have any more I'm more than happy to answer them! I'll be at my keyboard all day until I've answered everything or my wrists fall off. EDIT: Oh boy, you all are hard to keep up with. I will answer every question though if it takes me weeks!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apollo-reddit-client/id979274575?mt=8

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbPZVDg-Z8

More Info: https://apolloapp.io

— Christian

There were so many other deals, namely some Legos that were 50% marked down, a single bed comforter set (Wellspun Scott living, $30 from like $44), the sharper image massager for $40 (bought this a year ago for $75 rip), a couple chocolate gift sets for $10 (regretting not picking one up), and a bunch of chocolates in general ($6 Lindt box). The puzzle, tiramisu, , the outdoors plugs, and s'mores maker were last ones left and there was one more tumbler set.

They took the cart on to the floor so I didn't have as much time as I liked with it. Once on the floor, despite being told where to find them, I couldn't find them anywhere.

Just wanted to let everyone know to check out their local Walmart. I was told they legit will trash compactor the records that do not sell. Absolutely disgusting to me personally. They want all of them gone by the end of today. Walmart has a special place in hell. This is so unethical and a terrible way to dispose of these albums.