Markdown formats itself as you type.
Better Markdown is a writing app for Windows and Mac. Type # and get a heading. Type **bold** and get bold. The file you save is still plain markdown.
Trip notes
Pack light and leave early.
The page should feel like paper.
One page to write on. The markdown is underneath when you want it.
See the markdown with one key
Press Ctrl+/ to switch a tab between formatted text and its markdown, then press it again to go back. The document is the same either way, and each tab keeps its own view.
Keep a folder of notes open
Open a folder to list the markdown files inside it, and create, open, or delete them from the side pane. Documents stay open in tabs. Quit and come back, and your tabs are where you left them, including text you had not saved.
Print a document, not a screenshot
Printing uses white paper and dark ink, even from the dark theme, with a page number in the corner and nothing else in the margin. Choose the printer, paper, and page range before anything is sent. Write \pagebreak to start a new page.
Draw diagrams by writing them
A code block marked mermaid shows up as a diagram: flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and the rest. Click the diagram to change its text. The file keeps the code block, so it reads the same anywhere else.
Everything markdown has
Tables, task lists, footnotes, code with highlighting, images with captions, and math. Type / to insert any of them.
Light, dark, or match your system
Change the theme with Ctrl+Shift+D. A slider widens the page up to the full window.
Your files stay yours
No account and no sync. Documents are ordinary .md files, saved where you choose.
The keys you already know
Better Markdown uses the standard shortcuts for your system, plus two of its own.
- New document
- Ctrl+N
- Open
- Ctrl+O
- Save
- Ctrl+S
- Save as
- Ctrl+Shift+S
- Ctrl+P
- Close the tab
- Ctrl+W
- Switch tabs
- Ctrl+Tab
- Insert a block
- /
- Markdown or formatted
- Ctrl+/
- Change theme
- Ctrl+Shift+D
Start with a blank page.
Better Markdown 0.1.0 runs on Windows 10 and 11, and on Macs with Apple silicon or Intel.