With that out of the way let’s continue on with the why. Typora is my favorite Markdown editor, period. Thank you, Juergen, for pointing me to Typora back at the MVP Summit.The title might already give away my opinion on Typora so let me start by saying it again. Be sure to check out the official website, as there are a few more features, such as math formulas, which I never had the pleasure of using. As of writing, Typora is a free product though this might change in the future. Be it for a blog post, a document in a project or editing that readme for a GitHub project. I wrote this post because I have been using Typora a lot over the past few years, and it has never let me down when I had to write some markdown. I think it comes as no surprise that I am writing these lines using Typora. I especially like the PDF functionality when I have to share a document with a client or manager who might not know what to do with a markdown file. You can even import from Word files as markdown, though your mileage may vary on this one. You can export the markdown into different formats. Along with the likes of Word, PDF or HTML (the actual list is a lot longer…) and this is something you can do with Typora. Then again, sometimes you want a different file format. Being text-based means a markdown file can be opened and edited in the most basic editor, such as the good old Notepad on Windows, to open and edit the file. While markdown has a significant advantage, it is only text. I hope you see why I rarely write markdown tables in raw. | Yet another text | Running out of nothingness to write | Someone make this stop please. | Different text | Still no inspiration | That cell to the left sure lacks inspiration | | Some text | Don't know what to write here | Some comment regarding the cell to the left. With markdown, code can be embedded, either directly in the text someCode or a code block for multiple lines: Should you prefer to see the markdown’s source, you can always switch between the raw markdown mode and the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) experience.Īdding code to blogposts has always been a somewhat “interesting” task. If I do not know how to insert a specific markdown control, I can find it in a menu. This combination makes for a superb typing experience, in my opinion, since my hands never have to leave the keyboard for formatting the text. So you can add a # infront of a text on a new line, and it will become a heading one (h1). Word, the text is formatted using markdown control characters. Other editors have a side-by-side preview, which is nice, but it does not feel the same and forces you to work in split-screen mode.ĭifferent as in, e.g. Since it renders the output of the markdown file in real-time, you get a feel of the finished document. There is no in your face menus or buttons, just the clean writing experience. What I like about Typora is how it gets out of your way. I have used a few markdown editors in the past. Or at least on Windows and macOS, which are my primary drivers. I did not dig into it, but I am guessing it is an Electron-based app, so you will get the same features and look and feel (for the most part) on each platform. You can get it for Windows, macOS and Linux - so I hope that should have you covered. You can download and install Typora from the official website. There are many favourite markdown editors out there, but this one is mine. And since I have now migrated my blog over to GitHub pages, it has become a tool I use even more. I have been using Typora now for a few years to edit all my markdown documents.
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