MacDown - Markdown editor for hardcore offline Steemit macOS users
I'm in Steemit for... Wow! In a week it is going to be a month now. Time passes so fast.
I saw that it is popular on Steemit to show what tools Steemians use. So, here is my tool I use daily. And now even for Steemit posts. As a hardcore ex-blogger I use some offline tools to prepare articles. Sometimes it takes few days to prepare a good article. So, you need to save your thoughts or notes somewhere. Then why not in a document, like Markdown? Huh!
It is my text editor for macOS - MacDown.
MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS.
Yes, I'm a MacBook Pro 13" user. Should I say that I am proud of it? 😀
Before that I was a 15+ year PC and Microsoft Windows proud user. My migration was very unpleasant because I was a hardcore Windows user and still miss some things. However, now I am sure that I could even switch to Linux some day. But only when some Linux desktop OS is going to catch up with Apple macOS level or macOS becomes less usable.
But for now. Why should you consider using MacDown?
- It is open source and freeware
- It is stable
- It has nice customizations
- It is very light
- It has preview
- I just love it. 😘
Here are some screens and my comments about Preferences I use.
I like when opening MacDown it has an empty file. Actually I do not close MacDown at all. 😉 Even when I restart it is opened automatically.
Live update is a must. But be aware that it has a feature 😉 with images. It is caching the first image with image name you write in. And if you make some changes, optimize it and replace your image with the different and leave the same image name, then you have no other choice than to manually reload CMD+R. Otherwise MacDown is going to show you the cached image.
Sync preview scrollbar when editor scrolls - this one is tricky. Actually it does not synch as you might think. If you have images in your document or some code, then sync is not going to be 1:1 with your editor.
So, I do not use sync feature. And I have a good use of editor and scrollable preview. If I need to write a review and see some information in my post or images - like charts, then it is good to have it on right side, while you write about it on the left side.
Show word count? 🤔 F**k, yes! 😂
I use all the formatting that MacDown offers except for Intra-word emphasis. It looked bad with filenames with underscore_in_them.
I use MacDown for documentation. So, I have some cases where it looks silly.
I like it this way. Nothing to say more.
This one is specific on how you prefer your preview to look like. You have to just try all those themes and see for yourself.
Task list syntax is good one. If you have some todo's and want to write them as tasks.
- [ ] This is task one
- [x] This is task two (done)
- [ ] This is task three
You can make them the same as simple lists and add square brackets. Here is the code.
- [ ] This is task one
- [x] This is task two (done)
Simple, isn't it? 😀
Shell utility is useful when you want to open or create a file from command line.
macdown filename.md
That's it. Give it a try. It has a GitHub repository MacDownApp/macdown.