#Macdown open folder mac#

But it doesn't just do notes: it is designed for writing and publishing too, so it offers advanced features like exporting ebooks.

#Macdown open folder mac#

Ulysses is the other Mac and iOS app I think is most similar to Bear Notes. There's very little I don't like about Bear I wish I could change the indentation on bulleted lists and a couple of other things, and I wish it would reconcile sync conflicts when I edit a file in two different devices at the same time, but on the whole it's an absolute delight, very well suited for the purpose. The navigation 'folders' in the sidebar of Bear are based on tags. Tags are much easier to use than folders, and they're part of the note rather than invisible metadata with separate mechanisms for seeing and changing them, and they offer a lot more functionality and flexibility. All you have to do is put one or more #hashtags into a note's text, and it gets indexed by those tags. For example, the tagging-based organization system is genius. It has a few features that each do specific things really well, and in combination, are more than the sum of their parts. What I love about Bear is its minimalism and simplicity. The default isn't Markdown, but you can change that with a quick toggle in the settings. I'm a Bear Notes user, but while migrating from Apple Notes to Evernote to Bear Notes, I tried a lot of different note-taking apps.īear Notes is a Mac and iOS app that stores its notes in plain-text format and syncs them with Apple's iCloud. This is a good thing, because programs like Evernote, which are based on rich-text document formats, tend to accumulate hard-to-fix formatting problems in my experience. Note-Taking and WritingĪ crop of lightweight Markdown-based note-taking apps has sprung up in the last few years. I use a Mac, so I have a bias for editors that work on the Mac, but some of them work on other platforms too. I'll focus on apps that have some element of visual editing, rather than plaintext editors with syntax highlighting and the like. For a more extensive list, refer to my previous Markdown article. I'll cover a few popular choices in each of several categories. So many editing programs now support Markdown that it's not simply a matter of choosing the best editor, but the one that's best for the task, and/or the one you prefer. Continuing the recent theme of lightweight markup languages, I thought I'd write about a few Markdown editors I've used or tried.