Plain text. Total focus. The Industry standard Markdown text editor. Available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows. Download it now, try it for free
Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad
An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.
Markdown | Codecademy
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.
Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools
Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.
Astro Editor — A focused markdown editor for Astro content collections
Astro Editor is a native, distraction-free markdown editor that reads your Astro content collection schemas and turns frontmatter into clean, schema-aware forms. For writer mode, not coder mode.
Long form writing in Logseq
An area that has traditionally been described as one of Logseq’s weak points is long form writing, however, with the right setup, it’s very much possible to get an excellent writing experience While writing long form text, such as while scripting videos, I absolutely adore the experience of using both iA Writer and Ulysses. They’re some of the best designed apps I’ve ever used and offer an unparalleled editing experience. At the same time, I absolutely love using Logseq and all my notetaking and outlining for videos happens there.
Dangerous Writing App
Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.
outl — local-first markdown outliner & LLM second brain
Open-source bullet-point outliner. Plain markdown on disk (no UUIDs), peer-to-peer tree-CRDT sync that doesn't lose data when devices edit offline — your devices talk straight to each other, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud or third-party server holding your notes — and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT use your notes as a second brain. A modern Roam, Logseq and Obsidian alternative built in Rust.
The Emacsification of Software
We’re all reading a ton of Markdown. It’s been the lingua franca of software development since long before LLMs. But now agents have led us into a cursed renaissance of TUI tooling, and the reading experience has become intolerable. I’m certain that at least 14% of the agita about AI code is driven by exhaustion over incessantly scrolling terminal Markdown.
Markdown Guide
A free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown.
FocusWriter
FocusWriter is a distraction-free text editor for Microsoft Windows and Linux. An old version (1.7.6) still can be used on MacOS.
Marker
Marker is an open-source, user-friendly UI for writing & editing markdown files. Everything you create lives in your filesystem.
Marker — Read with intention
A reading and annotation browser for iOS and Android. Select text, create highlights, attach notes, and keep annotations on device.
HackMD: Your Collaborative Markdown Workspace for Knowledge Sharing
HackMD gives you a real-time Markdown editor for collaborative work. Working with Markdown files in HackMD is simple, straightforward, and fun.
