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Successsor or Fork of MarkText? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks! I've been using MarkText for years, but it seems dead now. It still works fine, but I've been on-and-off looking for something that gets dependency updates and is less resource heavy (electron).

I look for the following in order of importance:

FLOSS license
WYSIWYG editing, not side-by-side
limited scope (edit docs, not trying to be 'A System for Managing Ideas')
low resource usage
LaTeX support is a plus

Do you know if MarkText has a trustworthy fork that is maintained? Do you know if something with similar user experience exists that uses a more lightweight code base?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What about https://github.com/jacobwhall/marktext? but main dev doesnt have too much time, but better than nothing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, you've given some great suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I was looking into that fork some time ago (which doesn’t have a macOS version) and I remember the guy mentioning that the original developer came back from the dead. But now, the thread is closed, so I’m not even sure if the fork is stalled or not…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

https://ghostwriter.kde.org/ is decent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Alternativeto is good for looking for alternatives https://alternativeto.net/software/mark-text

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

not trying to be ‘A System for Managing Ideas’

It always bums me out that Obsidian and Zettlr would be top-of-the-line markdown editors if they didn't include all the extra twaddle... Anyway, iirc they both use electron so they will be off your list anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I have used Marker but recently started to use Apostrophe. I have found both of them good.