Tong Family

It is surprisingly difficult to find a simple Markdown editor that can deal with Git Flavored Markdown and the latest Mermaid.js. I have this running in vim with MarkdownPreview, but if you just want to view a rendered README.md, what’s the simplest way:

1. The various browsers and VSCode will display a Markdown file but not graphically, so that’s not helpful.
2. There are a bunch of open-source lists, but they feature things like MarkText and MacDown which are sadly not maintained. As an example, MarkText is not signed for the latest MacOS Sonoma and you have to run an xattr command to get it to run. While MacDown does not have an Apple Silicon version
3. The best I found was Zettler which is an open source research tool that uses Latex underneath but which can modern Markdown files with Mermaid.js and Git Flavord Markdown. It is pretty cool because unlike Overleaf, it is native markdown.
4. Obsidian is another one that is free to use but which is a bear to keep up with as far as various Podcast buddies

There are some nominal chargeapps like Typora which I might try, but really I don’t have the time to try them all since I do most of my editing in vi.