Hey folks! I’ve been using MarkText for years, but it seems dead now. It still works fine, but I’ve been on-and-off looking for something that gets dependency updates and is less resource heavy (electron).
I look for the following in order of importance:
- FLOSS license
- WYSIWYG editing, not side-by-side
- limited scope (edit docs, not trying to be ‘A System for Managing Ideas’)
- low resource usage
- LaTeX support is a plus
Do you know if MarkText has a trustworthy fork that is maintained? Do you know if something with similar user experience exists that uses a more lightweight code base?
What about https://github.com/jacobwhall/marktext? but main dev doesnt have too much time, but better than nothing
Thanks, you’ve given some great suggestions!
Alternativeto is good for looking for alternatives https://alternativeto.net/software/mark-text
https://ghostwriter.kde.org/ is decent
not trying to be ‘A System for Managing Ideas’
It always bums me out that Obsidian and Zettlr would be top-of-the-line markdown editors if they didn’t include all the extra twaddle… Anyway, iirc they both use electron so they will be off your list anyway.
