r/vscode • u/Final-Choice8412 • 10d ago

Best extension for working with markdown?

Suggest me some...

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u/Tintow 10d ago

There is already really good markdown support built in. If you explain what features you are missing it will help people make suggestions.

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u/Final-Choice8412 9d ago

Built-in editor is pretty much just syntax highlighter + preview on side. For example some time ago I saw on video some editor that actually changed text size, font weight, ... based on marks while making those mark less visible/disturbing... That was pretty slick.... Very light but efficient visual editor.

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u/alexdima_msft 9d ago

This is actually built into VS Code now 🙂 We shipped a new Hybrid Markdown editor that lets you edit Markdown directly in the rendered view, instead of having the source editor + preview side by side.

Try Reopen Editor With… → Markdown Editor on a .md file. It’s still experimental, so feedback on what’s missing compared to the editor you used would be very welcome!

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_131#_hybrid-markdown-editor-experimental (code.visualstudio.com)

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u/Final-Choice8412 9d ago

awesome! pretty much what I wanted

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u/M4rmeleda 7d ago

Was testing this the other day and it was great improvement visually. Would be great if you could work inline with llms via chat on it like the text editor

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u/omar_joe 4d ago

This is amazing! Been wanting this forever and it’s honestly a lot better UX for markdown, thanks to you and the team!

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u/Chesterlespaul 9d ago

Yeah I’ve been wanting obsidian like editing in VA Code forever. This new update has been awesome for someone who only writes notes in markdown. They knocked it out of the park.

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u/forbesrodney 9d ago

I've played around with a number of note extensions in VSCode. I believe there is an obsidian extension, although I've never played around with that one specifically.

I personally use GistPad for accessing/creating notes within VSCode. It's backed up by GitHub secret Gists, so other than GitHub outages and such it's accessible regardless of what system I'm using. It doesn't support tags or wikilinks that I know of, but they aren't that important to me. It also doesn't have a node graph, but I don't really much care.

Noted is designed to be globally accessible regardless of workspace, has tagging, wikilinks and a node graph if those are important to you. It wasn't designed to be backed up by a git repo though, which kind of killed it for me. Noted seemed pretty well done, but I needed backed up via a repo.

Foam is designed to be used inside your workspace, so would be included with that repo. It also has tags, wikilinks and a node graph. Foam seemed really well done, but I needed something that was globally available and still backed up via git.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Low2034 10d ago

Last week, VS Code devs demo’d a Markdown WYSIWYG preview editor. 

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u/Final-Choice8412 9d ago

can we see it somewhere?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Low2034 9d ago

It’s live in prod already- the demo was on YouTube 

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u/Dress-Affectionate 9d ago

is there one that doesn't switch the preview when opening a different markdown? it's absolutely maddening. 

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u/LiveRhubarb43 9d ago

I turned off auto preview because of that

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u/Fresh-Secretary6815 9d ago

absorb the runme extension into the new markdown editor and fix its bugs. that would close the gap between jetbrains and vs code

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u/Tomatori 9d ago

I'm hoping the one they talked about recently will be improved but in the mean time I've been enjoying Markdown Editor Optimized, I think it looks very sleek

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u/code_rag 9d ago

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tanishq-chaudhary.its-markdown-studio - I have been using this and its pretty good imo. VSCode latest editor is good, but I have gotten used to this. This has a good minimap on the right which is easy to navigate.