Markdown Pro 4+

I find it to be a very good tool.. Though I found lightpaper which is still free and is about the same level of throughness to the spec. Markdown Pro’s reversioning puts it above, way above, lightpaper. Though LP does cross-view better and has footnotes implemented a bit better.

My Current Thoughts:

ISSUES:
1. footnotes needs work
2. preview cross-viewing updates the right side jumps. Just needs to be a cleaned up a bit.
3. Long documents are hard to read. The rendered version is hard to sync with the edited version takes abit of hunting. Would like to click on rendered and have editor sync
4. PDF has issues with pagination
5. Manage save times for git

LIKES:
1. CSS Templates
2. Revert To
3. PDF/HTML Export
4. It has footnotes which is awesome, but need its to be [^#] instead of ^[#] and the referring links need to work.
5. Preview- side by side.

Would like to have:
1. Change font and bg/fg color in editor side
2. Footnotes
3. Side By Side to be in sync
4. Click on preview text and match and highlight markup text.
5. Would like to have a hotkey to bring it up and down
6. Stick it in the Mac OSX Menu bar for better access (so it can be managed with Bartender)

All in all, I am ok with spending 10$, there is great value here. I have grown accustom to markdown pro over lightpaper. I am interested version 2.0

I’ve found this to be a nice and reliable markdown editor, but it has a few small gotchas. Perhaps the biggest is that it often seems to make small changes to the source file asynchronously. This causes problems with committing the file to source control repository as I’ll think that the file has been saved and then I’ll go to commit and I’ll get a warning about unsaved changes.

Aside from that this is a fine editor that works quite well. The ability to give arbitrary CSS files for templates is great too and very well appreciated.

Being a cross platform person, who does some light HTML creation, I love markdown. On the Mac, without a doubt, Markdown Pro is my favorite go to editor (and I have a few installed). It is outstanding in versioning, and its “remembering” what I was working on when I do something stupid. But that is a Mac trait these days.

However, I do prefer Markdown Pad on the PC. It is just a bit more convenient, and intuitive to use. Not sure how to bridge the gap, both products are great, but I give the nod to the PC program (one of the rare times that I can say that.

The one annoying thing is that when I am working on longer documents, the “preview” screen doesn’t scroll when you keep typing, so you have to keep mousing over and recentering the view.