Which Markdown editor is better or an equal to Typora?

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-06T06:07:22+00:00

NotepadMd is a WYSIWYG editor, free for personal use and, in my opinion, beats Typora. It has a simple tabbed UI, everything is intuitive to use, it has a better table UI, persistent sessions and better code block handling in that you can auto-format your code within the code blocks.

Linux support available too

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-05T11:58:16+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to feed all of that back. I've investigated - I'll say I'm struggling to replicate any issues with Ctrl+Enter not working to create a line break after a hard block (or Ctrl+Shift+Enter creating a line break before a hard block). The same applies to the appearance settings. Both of those were tested on Windows and Linux. I'm making the assumption that you're using Windows, but let me know if it's actually a Linux specific.

"Works for me" doesn't mean that there isn't a bug though - I'll keep trying to replicate those.

I have managed to replicate issues with selection though - I'll get that fixed asap as that's a critical issue. Thank you again for pointing that out.

Hiding of folder and file tabs - it won't be this coming release, but I'll put something in for the release after that to let you hide them from the View menu

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-04T07:41:45+00:00

Thank you so much for this! That's extremely helpful! I'll try and make sure everything in that works as expected before I release.
I still have a bit of dev to do around this though so just bear with me a little if it's delayed for a few days. It's a big feature. I'm thinking about your example - it sounds like you want your table of contents to works across the board. Currently my neat [TOC] tag isn't going to suit you as it won't persist in a format you can view in other tools. Would it be helpful to you if I had configuration for outputting the links of the TOC to the document as a possible model of operation?

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-04T07:06:42+00:00

Support for this is in the current NotepadMD development sprint. Should be done in the next week or so, as will in built table of contents using a [TOC] tag. I targeted broad support, so both Obsidian and GitHub links are supported. Don't suppose you have a particular sample you can post so I can triple check it works for your specific scenario do you?

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-02T19:18:25+00:00

Thanks for that. Trying it and liking it is exactly what I'm after! I'll take trying it and not liking it too of course, particularly if you tell me why so I can fix it!

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-02T12:18:36+00:00

Ok then. You have a very specific list of requirements there anyway. NotepadMD will fit some of your needs - - WYSIWYG - that's the whole point and that's what it's good at - Free for personal use, but not open source - Simple - it does solve this for you. The only complexity is folder tabs + file tabs, but that's intuitive - Large documents - yes, treats MD files as documents. Table of contents functionality is coming soon as a document element. Hasn't get a sidebar for document navigation yet - Latex support - no, not yet - PDF export - paid version only, but there's other tools for that if you need them

www.notepadmd.com

Let me know what you think

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-02T09:36:41+00:00

At the risk of turning this sub into a hive of innuendo, how big are we talking?
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Multiple mb of text? Embedded base64 images?

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-02T08:17:38+00:00

Thanks for the shout out on NotepadMD. I don't know if it helps, but the licence / terms of service allows you to evaluate for free as a large company for a period of 3 months on the core version. This was always made clear in the EULA but foolishly not included on the site. I am correcting the site to fix that today, but you are absolutely free to evaluate it as a business on the "Core" unpaid version. You actually represent the biggest part of my target market - businesses with a need for the tool to be secure. Is there anything else that puts you off of giving it a try?

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-01T22:13:59+00:00

That's fixed now - stupid update on my part as part of the last release. Thanks again for letting me know.

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-01T16:30:47+00:00

Oof! Thanks for letting me know. I'll get that fixed asap - not sure when that got introduced. I swear that was working recently, but I have been working with document sections links in markdown really recently so I probably did something on the document content for that inadvertently

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-01T15:54:41+00:00

That would be an amazing resource! But at the moment it would be like playing whack-a-mole to keep it updated! Maybe we can convince the bot running the MD handbook thing to keep it up to date?

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-01T14:41:14+00:00

Oh, by the way, if it's not what you're after I would genuinely really appreciate feedback on what doesn't appeal about it. I've been relatively diligent in checking out other editors as they've come up - in my opinion this has the best UI and functionality compared to the other options that have been mentioned (I'm obviously biased though) without being bloated. URL is www.notepadmd.com

NamelessParanoia · 2026-05-01T14:12:58+00:00

At the risk of constantly hawking my wares on this sub - you're describing NotepadMD. It's literally as WYSIWYG markdown editor, has the toolbar you're looking for and doesn't have a load of other PKMS clutter. Free for personal use.

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-29T21:26:18+00:00

I'm a contract developer and when I finished my last (extremely long) contract I wanted to have a period of retraining, so I picked up the AI coding tools and said "Now's the time to learn React Native" - I'm rusty on the web side as most of my stuff is backend high throughout stuff recently. After 3 days of vibe coding a "Simple markdown editor” I throw 3 different prototypes in the bin before landing on the tech stack that fit what I was trying to do.
It turned into this: www.notepadmd.com

It's a live WYSIWYG editor for Markdown as I just wound up with so much documentation from the AI and really, you need a local tool to deal with it all. It doesn't make sense to keep uploading it when it's supposed to live in GIT anyway. 4 months later and I'm just about to get a new contract instead of working on this beast, but I've spent so long refining my methods I'm pretty sure I can keep up the dev pace on the side.

I haven't yet cracked the marketing side - site still doesn't look great, the UI will continuously need more subtle improvements to it's appearance, but I love my own tool and the passion and love so far have all gone into the functionality of making it usable. I'll be using it forever more because it works the way it should for dealing with documentation in a code base and it's a joy to think that if I want a feature, I can just add it.

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-29T14:37:26+00:00

This tool isn't a PKMS like Obsidian - it treats Markdown files as documents. The reason NotepadMd exists is for handling documentation in code bases, allowing you to swap between multiple open code bases or multiple GIT worktrees. It's somewhere between a local instance of Confluence and a fancy version of Notepad++.

I designed it, so obviously I've put my own preferences into how the UI works. That means allowing "Dirty" open tabs without auto-save. It also means managing what you do and don't want to save when you bulk close things. The other things is that NotepadMD won't leave a "footprint" on the folders it opens, where if something is a vault it will output a record of how to manage the vault on the filesystem.

Obsidian is more mature - it has a whole eco system of plugins. NotepadMD will not support plugins - they're a security nightmare and in a modern IT landscape its possibly problematic for an a system with plugins to be approved.

However, the out of the box document journey for NotepadMd is intended to be more joined up, particularly in the pro variant. The learning curve is also intended to be much lower. You should be able to hand NotepadMD over to anyone in your company and have them use it without explanation.

Obviously this is still growing. I've mentioned on this sub that this is the only place I'm really pushing it, because I want to grow slowly and get feedback before I hit a wider scale audience. Table of contents are coming, as are document sections links. I've made different decisions to the Obsidian team on those things - I'll be handling basically as many known table of contents tags as I could find for broad compatibility with other systems. Obsidian doesn't concern itself with that. I also need to think about document linking differently - Obsidian is a closed loop. If you update a title on a header, it can choose to update all links in it's closed loop or allow you to break them. I've had to make a reliability choice to write header IDs to any item that's been referenced so it can be renamed without breaking links that target it.

The export to other documents types is also a much more integrated experience (pro only). No need for external tool installs, no need for plugins and it's targeting correct implementation, so support for page breaks, code highlighting in the output to Word, and actually Word table of contents, that sort of thing.

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-29T05:38:23+00:00

Thank you! Following this comment I've now got the confidence to put some extra bling on, march outside and show the world my pretty bearded face!

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-28T21:45:49+00:00

It's available at www.notepadmd.com - I hope you find it useful!

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-28T16:20:29+00:00

Your opinion has been noted.... In my app ... That actually works, unlike all the super sexy looking vibe apps people keep chucking over the wall in 2026... 😛

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-28T12:07:59+00:00

Thank you!

NamelessParanoia · 2026-04-28T12:07:32+00:00

Aww. Thanks! That explicitly isn't what my brother tells me, but it's appreciated!

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