GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editor

• KeenWrite

  98 621 0.0 Java

  Discontinued Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.

My free and open-source KeenWrite text editor is comparable to GhostWriter:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite#features

What sets KeenWrite apart is the ability to use (externally-defined) variables within the prose, shown in this older demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dFd6UhdV8

Also, variables work in diagrams, R expressions, and TeX equations. For example, take a look at the following screenshot:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/maste...

The palette is defined in one spot, allowing colours to be used by both diagrams and typesetting the final PDF. Further, character names can be assigned and referenced within both the prose and diagrams. Also, the variables are interpolated, which allows variables to be defined in terms of other variables.

• vs-ghostwriter

  1 234 0.0 C++

  ghostwriter is a cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor.

Looks like the Windows support is provided by a third party that isn't able to produce windows installers past the 1.8.0 version. I had to search around a bit to find that one, so a direct link for anyone that wants the 1.8.0 Windows x64 installer package:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter/releases/down...

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• markdown-preview-plus

  3 371 4.5 TypeScript

  Discontinued Markdown Preview + Community Features

  

GhostWriter is more basic than others, which some may consider a good thing. I tried it on Arch for a bit since there is a package in the official repos.

I however prefer just using Atom with Markdown Preview Plus. It has a ton of features built in with sane extensions, or you can integrate it with Pandoc:

https://github.com/atom-community/markdown-preview-plus/blob...

I'm sure VS Code has something similar, but only from non-trusted third parties.

• ghostwriter

  14 4,217 9.0 C++

  Text editor for Markdown

  

The README gives instructions. It says it's experimental though.

https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter#macos

• github-orgmode-tests

  246 148 4.8

  This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

• emacs-livedown

  1 114 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs plugin for Livedown.

I've enjoyed using this Emacs package: https://github.com/shime/emacs-livedown

• notekit

  14 1,420 2.4 C++

  A GTK3 hierarchical markdown notetaking application with tablet support.

I'm actually working on one (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit). It's native (Gtk+/C++) rather than Electron, too.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• stackedit

  7 21,377 5.2 JavaScript

  In-browser Markdown editor

Most dedicated markdown editors all end up using the same JS code editor components like Ace, CodeMirror or Monaco, and those editors have great vim keybindings usually as extensions or options. See if the tool you're using lets you flip those vim bindings on. For some editors they expose it as an option and for others you have to hack around with the source (for example enabling it with stackedit, a PWA markdown editor like ghostwriter, is possible with same hacking: https://github.com/benweet/stackedit/issues/254 ).

• markdown-preview.nvim

  53 6,192 6.0 JavaScript

  markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

Vim displays plaintext, so you cannot use it to preview markdown as HTML. However, you can use a plugin such as "markdown-preview" [0] to preview markdown in your browser.

0: https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim

• SpaceVim

  86 19,974 4.8 Vim Script

  Discontinued A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc

  

So what about something like SpaceVim ?

https://spacevim.org/

• marktext

  74 44,963 4.9 JavaScript

  📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

  

Are you trying the same Mark Text app (https://marktext.app/ , https://github.com/marktext/marktext)? Here is a screenshot I just took, trying out things: https://i.imgur.com/bvE0FyM.png — it seems to do WYSIWYG just like Typora (which I have used extensively), and in fact I can't find a separate preview mode anywhere. (There is a View→Source Code Mode checkbox that you can turn on if you want to view only the source code for some reason, but that's not the default.) See also the screenshots in the GitHub repo's README (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marktext/marktext/develop/...). Could you explain the difference you have in mind?

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