Mark Text
Mark Text is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your editing efficiency.
- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Note-taking
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Our users have written 17 comments and reviews about Mark Text, and it has gotten 98 likes
- Developed by Mark Text
- Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
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- Average rating of 4.3
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naarcissus Upvoted a comment on Mark TextHeavy, heavy, bloated electron app. Guys, you're not convincing me that electron is a viable platform with apps like this one. Other than that — it's an interesting mix of WYSIWYG and still having the tags visible in the text. Not quite as pretty as the preview pane of, for example, ReText, but not too bad. I wanted to like it (cross-platform is a nice goal) but ultimately it wasted too much of my time just trying to view a document that it will be leaving my machine shortly.
Markdown, with preview as you write. Similar to Typora, except it's open source (and therefore more likeable, trustworthy and deserving of support). It deserves a point for supporting Windows, Mac and Linux. Mark Text needs the ability to drag-and-drop non-image files from local storage (not to the cloud) and the ability to store that in a local folder the user can sync for him/herself; then Mark Text wil be an absolutely killer productivity app to rival Bear, Boostnote and their ilk.
One bit of weirdness: you can seemingly drag-and-drop image files to the owner's private domain (loli.net). Firstly, the files going to loli.net don't seem to be encrypted, and therefore the owner can see those files. That's not good for the user's privacy and it's a million miles away from safe.
The image uploader now offers 2 options: https://sm.ms/ (no login) or you can authenticate with GitHub.
The gh option was good once I figured it out. usually for configuration dialogues like this there will either be instructions, or a link to instructions. Here a user just has to know what a "token" is and how to set one up. Honestly 6 months ago I wouldn't have been able to do that. But since it's not 6 months ago, it works fine. :) No control of where the images get added, filenames, etc so would probably want to create a dedicated repo.
Also, I made my repo private so the files won't be generally available on the web for anyone who happens to click on it, but I have no idea what security/privacy is available here. Presumably this isn't somewhere to put a bunch of very sensitive documents.
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easy, shiny, cross platform markdown editor for everyday
Heavy, heavy, bloated electron app. Guys, you're not convincing me that electron is a viable platform with apps like this one.
Other than that — it's an interesting mix of WYSIWYG and still having the tags visible in the text. Not quite as pretty as the preview pane of, for example, ReText, but not too bad.
I wanted to like it (cross-platform is a nice goal) but ultimately it wasted too much of my time just trying to view a document that it will be leaving my machine shortly.
It just works
Buggy
Almost the same as Typora, but free
Since Typora got paytwalled, MarkText is the best altenrative.