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josephernest / writing

writing

Writing is a lightweight distraction-free text editor, in the browser (Markdown and LaTeX supported).

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0Explicit recommenders
1.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Writing is a lightweight distraction-free text editor, in the browser (Markdown and LaTeX supported).

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-17 20:32:20 UTC to 2017-11-22 22:35:44 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsOct 162017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 302017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Oct 162017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC312
Oct 232017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 302017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 62017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 132017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 202017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Very cool! It would be nice to see an Org mode version of this. Org syntax for the uninitiated: http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html It's very similar to Markdown if using Org just as a markup. --- Can folks interested in Org mode support please upvote this issue: https://github.com/josephernest/writing/issues/13 If nothing else, it will at least help somewhat guage the interest in Org mode :)
In Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)
Thanks! I just tried hackmd.io and even if it's cool, it wouldn't be usable for me on everyday use because it's not responsive enough: write some text, wait 0.5sec to see it in the preview, write some text, wait 0.5sec to see it in the preview, etc. Also it's not "LPWP" enough for me (i.e. the first page that you visit on the website is the page where things actually happen, that means that there is no welcome page or login page). See https://github.com/josephernest/writing#why-another-markdown...
In Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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