If you are like me, and write everything in Markdown, I found a great cross-platform Markdown editor Typora
What I like about Typora
Lets you write markdown and see the styling in 1 window.
A lot of other Markdown editors have a “writing” and “display” pane side by side. I find this setup less than ideal. However, Typora lets you write Markdown in the same window, and text is automatically formatted for you. The workflow is much better and more similar to writing a Word document, but without having to keep changing the auto-formatting.
Custom Themes
Typora has a couple of pretty standard built in themes. I was able to tweak the default “Github” theme to add colors to the different headings in just a few minutes.
Clean Interface
The writting interface is very minimal and does not distract by adding too many buttons and unnesseary anything.
Easy switch to code mode
If you need to ‘do some more complex formatting, it is easy to switch into “code mode” by clicking the </> button or ctrl-/
Things that need work
Keep in mind, Typora is still in Beta, so bugs are expected
- Page jumps sometimes when scrolling
- Losing your place when flipping back and forth in code mode
These are both kind of annoying, but not deal breakers by any stretch.
Summary
Definitely check out Typora if you write any amount of Markdown. It is free while in Beta so there is no reason not to.