Some Markdown editors provide a preview of the rendered document in real time when writing or editing, which reduces the number of times you need to render your work externally to proof for markup mistakes. Generally, Markdown won’t be the final destination format of your piece of work, so you’ll need a tool that can convert Markdown to a richly formatted document such as HTML, Word, or PDF, which can be customized along the way via CSS or other display formatters. You might be asking, “Do I really need a Markdown editor? Can’t I just use any old plain-text editor?” The team and I are now officially Markdown junkies! :] Once you start using Markdown, you’ll get addicted. For example, we use it here at to create our books, using a custom tool we wrote that converts Markdown into book PDFs. You’ll find support for Markdown in many tools, workflows, and web sites. I can create a document on my MacBook and edit on my Windows machine or iPad without worrying about cross-platform issues. Since a Markdown document is just a text document, any text editor can create and edit Markdown documents. Markdown quickly became my preferred writing format because it helps me stay focused on recording my thoughts and ideas quickly and efficiently. I discovered Markdown the same way I suspect many developers did - through its use on GitHub, which uses Markdown to format issues, comments, and pull request descriptions. Getting Startedīefore we dive into the top 5 Markdown editors, let’s talk about why you should use Markdown in the first place, and why you need a Markdown editor at all. Keep It 1.4 is available today for Mac, iPad and iPhone.Note: For the sake of this article, we are calling an “editor” any tool that allows you to edit or render Markdown (not necessarily both). Starting with this version Keep It can now encrypt items, has dedicated Markdown editors with syntax highlighting and preview, can show word counts for notes and other editable text documents, and copy clickable links to lists. On Mac, Keep It can now open anything in a window, show margins for any editable text document opened in its own window, and navigate the history of viewed items. This is the biggest Keep It update so far, particularly for the Mac, and the focus is on making Keep It a great place to edit and view notes, documents, images, video clips and more. ![]() Keep It now has a dedicated Markdown editor on both Mac and iOS. This includes syntax highlighting, editing assistance for things such as headings, emphasis, links, images and lists and a choice of styles for both editor and preview. ![]() Keep It uses the same syntax highlighting engine as MacDown, so any editor style that can be used with MacDown can be used with Keep It on both platforms, and creating custom styles is pretty straightforward. Any CSS stylesheet will work for the preview. Keep It’s aim is to present Markdown files as something more than just plain text, and provide the fundamentals. It’s completely fine to open Markdown files in a dedicated editor should you need more than Keep it offers, and similarly if you want a live-updating preview, I would recommend Marked 2 by Brett Terpstra. Individual items can now be encrypted with a password, and temporarily viewed with the password, Face ID or Touch ID (including on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar). Encrypt items with the Item > Encrypt menu item or optional toolbar button on Mac. On iOS, tap the activity button and tap Encrypt. Keep It for Mac will re-encrypt previously encrypted files in the new format when importing Together libraries, and both Keep It for Mac and Keep It for iOS will offer to decrypt files whenever you export them. Keep It strives to use standard file formats whenever possible. Encrypted files in Keep It are Zip files that use AES-256 encryption and can also be opened in apps that support that format, such as The Unarchiver. ![]() Keep It for Mac can now navigate back and forth between items you’ve viewed. Navigate with the Go > Back and Go > Forward menu items or their key equivalents, using the optional navigation toolbar item, or the Touch Bar. Open Anything in a Window on MacĪnything can now be opened in a window (or tab) in Keep It for Mac. By default, items will still open in their original applications, but this can be reversed by holding on the Command key while double-clicking an item, and the default changed in General preferences.
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