Markdown, writing tools, and the case for owning your plain text.
Vault-based note tools assume a workspace. But half the time a note is just a file you want to read. The case for a Markdown editor that opens files.
Apps retire. Proprietary formats go with them. Plain-text Markdown just keeps opening — here's why, with receipts you can reproduce in two minutes.
Five genuinely free Markdown editors for macOS, compared — live preview, export, and which fits your workflow. No trials that expire, no paywalls hiding in the features.
Typora's 15-day trial ends in a $14.99 license. If you want the same render-as-you-type Markdown editing on macOS for free, here are the closest alternatives.
Three reliable ways to turn a Markdown file into a PDF on macOS — a faithful HTML-export-then-print, Pandoc on the command line, and a quick print-to-PDF — with the trade-offs.
Most editors quietly reformat your Markdown the moment you save. Here's why byte-for-byte fidelity matters — and what it looks like when a tool gets it right.