Markdown Editor with Obsidian-style Preview

Hi there,

I am searching for an Markdown Editor, with a similar Live-Preview feature to Obsidian. In particular, I do not want to split the view into source and preview, but have the preview as the main window and only switch to source code for the line/block I am currently editing. Nextcloud uses a similar feature for their in-browser editor, but I need an offline variant.

Do you have any suggestions?

19 comments

Check out Marktext

7
- Looks quite good, I will give it a try. Thanks!
  
  2
I can recommend Logseq

6
I've been enjoying Apostrophe:

5
Silverbullet is like that. It is not an electron or native app, you have to run a server and then get to it from the browser.

TLDR it is best run with docker or podman, but IMHO it is pretty good.

4
I'm not entirely sure if this is what you are asking, but it looks like it is: https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr

3
- Looks good and seems to have tab splitting, which marktext laggs. I will check it out, when I have some time. Thanks!
  
  2
  
  I use zettlr -- it's pretty good! The only issues I've run into are with the table editor, and with occasional lag on large documents; the latter just comes with the territory on an Electron app. I know Nathan's working on both, though.
  
  1
Zettlr does this reasonably well. It doesn't do it by default, though, you have to turn it on in the settings

3
Marktext does this for me, can't compare 100% to Obsidian as I've rage uninstalled that several times within an hour of installing it.

3
QOwnNotes (https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes) may be an option as it is pure Markdown and need not have both the code and preview windows open. I used it before moving to Obsidian. It has some options to customise its window views, but it is a long time since I used it, so not sure if it has that block mode you want. Logseq I seem to recall worked with blocks as it is an Outliner that does save in Markdown format, but I did not like that the outline blocks added characters to the file format that slightly broke compatibility with standard Markdown formats. But blocks was Logseq's strength.

2
Joplin has this functionality, although I don’t often use it since I prefer to type directly into the Markdown editor. Whatever you choose, be sure that you’re comfortable with the security and privacy implications of it.

2
~~I can reccommend Trilium. I think it has what you're looking for.~~ | Nevermind. Looks like the project is in maintenance mode for now.

1
- https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes is a fork that appears to be actively developed. Found it near the end of the issue linked from the maintenance notice.
  
  1
  
  Although it says it "imports Markdown" so not sure if it is an actual Markdown format editor.
  
  1
Make one, share it here. Would love to use it

1

You've viewed 19 comments.