ghostwriter

I personally just use GVim (for both code and markdown for my ebooks). See if https://ghostwriter.kde.org/ (FOSS) helps? Source code is at https://github.com/KDE/ghostwriter (written in C++)

Or the Kde markdown editor http://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter

I have used syncthing + marktext[0] and or ghostwriter[1] depending on the content of my notes. For a daily journal I like to use ghostwriter as it has almost no distraction and it forces me to focus. It just got shifted over to being maintained by the KDE team and I really enjoy it. I liked marktext over joplin for similar reasons. But I am probably a little overzealous in my search for distraction free note taking. I assume joplin provides more feature sets, I just happened to want less features for what I do on a day to day. [0]https://github.com/marktext/marktext [1]https://github.com/KDE/ghostwriter

The "distraction-free" bit reminded me of a similar tool I used a couple of years ago, Ghostwriter [0]. Differences between the two AFAICT: - use of Pandoc as a converter is only optional in Ghostwriter, and I don't know how well it is integrated - semi-official MacOS support: Ghostwriter requires you to build the app from source (maybe its authors didn't want to notarize the app?) and it has a few quirks apparently[1]. - more features for the more mature Ghostwriter. In any case good to see more choices in this space, cross-platform Markdown word processors with Pandoc support were a rare occurrences a couple of years ago! [0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter [1] https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/download.html#macos edit: formatting

It seems to come with its own fonts: https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter/tree/master/resour...

The README gives instructions. It says it's experimental though. https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter#macos

> By the software's system, Hemingway's own writing is in trouble. > Truth is, this app is a nifty diagnostic tool that will help you avoid some writing goofs, if you use it judiciously. But if you let it dictate every change, you'll lose the full rhythms of good writing. That is why I prefer to use ghostwriter app[0], which has "Hemingway Mode", but I may enable or disable it on my wish.[1] [0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter [1] http://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/

There's also WereTurtle's Ghostwriter [0]. [0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter

Completely agree. Everything I publish starts with plain text. I use the basic text editor that comes with the OS or Ghostwriter [1] when I really want no distractions. It's a great, minimal and distraction free editor I discovered recently when I switched to Linux (it does exist on Windows too and there's a macOS beta). I put it on full screen with dark theme and focus mode on (it highlights the current line and fades everything else away). When I want to go gung-ho I also enable Hemingway mode which disables the backspace key. Love it. [1] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter

if you guys want a MD editor that's not a bloated electron mess as most are try out ghostwriter ( https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter ) i've tried pretty much every single choice and this is what i'm using now

> Too bad it's electron. Thank You for the TL;DR. Hate it too ;-) I currently migrate from ghostwriter[0] to VNote[1] (both are Qt-based). VNote look very nice, but some refactoring needed + some features (that I'm waiting for) still missed. Hope, VNote development will be active, as it's developer[2] promised on HN[3]. [0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter [1] https://github.com/tamlok/vnote [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tamlok [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821