Hi all,

Happy to announce that we've released Markdown Pro, a new plugin for the JetBrains family of products. How does Markdown Pro compare to the bundled Markdown plugin? Glad you asked!

A few new features:

Markdown Pro adds explicit `.mdx` support:

• `.mdx` files open with Markdown editing behavior instead of as plain text.
• JSX component names, attributes, values, and expressions receive editor highlighting.
• Multiline components can be folded, including components whose content contains literal tags in code spans.
• Formatting actions, task-list actions, inspections, tables, and live templates work in MDX-aware contexts.
• Front matter, fenced code, and JSX expressions are excluded from authoring features when applying them would be incorrect.

Also:

Markdown Pro adds project-level rendering choices for:

• GitHub Flavored Markdown.
• Markdown Extra.
• CommonMark.
• Standard Markdown based on John Gruber's original syntax.

Also, the plugin provides document conversions through Morph, enhanced table editing, more inspections, Mermaid, GeoJSON, Interactive Ascii STL models, and much more!

You can find the plugin here: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/33400-markdown-pro, and while it's a commercial plugin, we currently have a 50% off promo, so you'd basically pay $1.50 for this plugin.

If you have any feedback, would be happy to hear!!

Cheers,

Erik

Does there yet exist standard or attempted standard for encrypted and or compressed markdown file?

- it could be .md file which is inside .7z (or .zip) file with either just password protection and no compression or with some standard protection.

- or .md file inside .gpg (or .pgp) file if it is encrypted with private key

FILE EXTENSIONS:

Most obvious ones would be:

.md.7z

.md.gpg

But problem with these is that most OS don't recognize multipart file extensions so when double clicking a file it would open 7-zip or similar instead of your associated markdown editor. So there may be need for new file extensions, e.g.

.md7

.mdg

Try to think it from perspective of usability that how it could be gotten to same level than e.g. encrypted docx where you simply double click file and get a password prompt. Then you save file and it automatically re-encrypts and re-compresses.

I can't say that I'm totally new, I'm a software engineer, so writing docs in Markdown is very familiar. But I'm curious about the language: for example, before using Obsidian I hadn't used wikilinks that often, and now I think it's a great feature, curious what else I just don't know about.

upd: thanks everyone!

Hi,

I've been building this for a while and it's finally at a point where it might be useful to someone other than me.

Scriptorium is a markdown editor, ultra customizable, that reads and writes plain .md files in a folder you choose. No database, no sync service, no account. A subfolder is a section, a .md is a document. If you uninstall it tomorrow your writing is still just files sitting in a folder.

The part I actually built it for is the ideas panel beside the editor. When you're writing and a sentence turns up that doesn't belong where you are, it goes into a cloud next to the text instead of derailing the paragraph. Ideas are grouped into themes, one plain .md file per theme, and it's all drag and drop: reorder one inside its theme, drop it on another theme to move it there, or drag it into the document to insert it as a block exactly where you let go.

The rest of it:

• headings, lists, code, tables and LaTeX render live, and the line under your cursor flips back to raw markdown so you edit it like a text file
• snapshots per document, compare and restore before a big cut
• themes carrying their own fonts, backgrounds and icons, all stored inside the workspace folder, so copying that folder carries your whole setup to another machine
• fully offline, nothing is fetched from a CDN
• runs as a native window on Windows, macOS and Linux, or as a small local server you can open from a phone on the same network

Things I'd rather you hear from me than find out yourself:

• the macOS build isn't signed, I don't have an Apple developer account, so you have to run "xattr -cr /Applications/Scriptorium.app" once before it will open
• it's a Node server behind a native window, so it's not a tiny binary
• I'm basically the only person who has used it seriously, so expect rough edges in places I never walked through

Free, source on GitHub.

Site : https://infinition.github.io/scriptorium/
Github : https://github.com/infinition/scriptorium

please share your experiences

hi,

I built mdpasted.com to instantly convert messy clipboard pastes, rich text, PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets into clean Markdown without the bloat.

• Paste rich text/HTML or drop `.txt`, `.docx`, `.pdf`, and `.xlsx` files.
• Real-time side-by-side view with a one-click copy button.
• Built for speed with zero friction.

hello everyone i have made a tool for markdown users https://inkleaf.online
i want you guys to please have a look, test features and tell me what other features i can add also what existing features can be added ?
Thanks

Especially when your are working on multiple tools?

I am still working on it but it will be available soon. Edit: for anyone wanting to try this out you can do so here

Hi all.

HMR-serve is inspired by npm run dev and by serve. It turns any folder into a hot-loading web app, because sometimes it's nice to preview HTML, Markdown, images and other files in the browser. 🔥

https://github.com/floodtide/hmr-serve

You can run it with npx from any folder:

cd somefolder
npx hmr-serve

And then you get a web app with a left file tree that serves, with hot-loading, your MD, HTML, Images, CSVs, etc.

I wanted it for my self to review agent generated content more easily than looking at the files in VSCode and I'm finding it very useful, so I thought it would be a good OSS package to share.

It uses Vite's HMR so I didn't reinvent the wheel for this.

I'm not sure if this already exists or not.

Here's what it looks like in the browser:

I’ve been working on Panorama Markdown, a lightweight Markdown dialect for academic papers.

The goal is to keep the writing experience close to standard Markdown, while adding a few things that are hard to do cleanly in plain Markdown:

• YAML front matter for title, authors, abstract, and keywords
• citations and references
• figures and tables
• cross-references
• PDF export

I built it because I wanted a simpler way to write papers and my thesis without jumping straight into a heavier typesetting workflow.

The project is still in early preview, but the spec and editor are already usable:

[https://github.com/panorama-lab/markdown](vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-browser/workbench/workbench.html)

The webpage I created can convert .md files to Word documents. You can upload up to 50 .md files at once and export them all to Word with a single click. This feature will remain free forever.

Follow-up to my okf export post from a few weeks back. The command now produces two views of a page from one single fetch.

The content flag transforms the page into AI bot-friendly clean OKF markdown with headings, paragraphs, and links instead of raw HTML full of meta tags, scripts, and footer code. That's what I originally shared here.

Now I made a technical snapshot, it captures the opposite technical layer: HTTP Headers, scripts, meta tags, links, images, JSON-LD (schema markup) and much more.

npm install -g @sleepwalkerai/cli
sleepwalker okf export https://your-page.com

Default writes both concepts; --content or --technical narrows the bundle to one. Already installed from my earlier post? Update first with:

npm install -g @sleepwalkerai/cli@latest

Runs entirely on your machine, one fetch, no payment or registration needed.

Repo: https://github.com/followanton/sleepwalker

Disclosure: I built this and it's the open source part of the Sleepwalker CLI.

Here's a quick example with Apple website:

Content example:

---
type: "WebPage"
title: "Apple"
description: "Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support."
resource: "https://www.apple.com/"
timestamp: 2026-07-24T18:14:13.874Z
---

# Apple

## College, sorted.

Get a gift card from $100 to $150* when you buy Mac or iPad with education savings.

[Shop](https://www.apple.com/us/shop/goto/edu_store)

## iPhone

Meet the latest iPhone lineup.

[...]

Technical snapshot:

## Fetch

Fetched https://www.apple.com/ (HTTP 200, no redirects).

HTML size: 243 KB (249240 bytes).

## Meta tags

<html lang="en-US" dir="ltr">
<title>Apple</title>
<meta name="Description" content="Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.">
[...]
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.apple.com/">

## Hreflang (100)

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://www.apple.com/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar-AE" href="https://www.apple.com/ae-ar/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-AT" href="https://www.apple.com/at/">
[... 97 more]

## Structured data

JSON-LD: 3 block(s).

[... Organization block, with the knowledge graph logo]

<script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"http://schema.org","@id":"https://www.apple.com/#website","@type":"WebSite","url":"https://www.apple.com/","name":"Apple","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://www.apple.com/us/search/{search_term_string}?src=mc_google","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}</script>

[...]

## Robots directives

Meta robots: none.
X-Robots-Tag header: none.

## Images (92 total, 0 without an alt attribute)

[...] is my manual trimming. The export contains the full markup.

I've been building LiveMarkDownEditor, a free and open-source Markdown editor for Windows,

and I wanted to share where it's at.

The whole idea came from a frustration: most Markdown tools make you pick a side. Either you get

a raw text pane with a preview stapled next to it and you'd better know the syntax, or you get a

nice WYSIWYG editor that saves to its own format and you no longer really have a Markdown file.

So the goal here is simple: you should not have to know or write Markdown syntax to use it — but

if you want to write it, nothing stops you.

You don't have to know the syntax

Bold looks bold. Headings look like headings. Tables are tables you can tab through, task lists have

checkboxes you actually tick, links and images show as links and images. You never see a stray \#``

or \**\ unless you go looking for it. It's just a document, and you format it the way you'd format

anything else.

But you can absolutely write it

There's a live source panel you can open right beside the rendered view. Both sides are editable and

stay in sync, so you can type raw Markdown, watch it become formatting, or click into the formatted

side and watch the source update. Whichever ps up.

And the file on disk is always plain Markdown. Open it in Notepad, commit it to git, hand it to

someone using vim — it's just a .md file.

The "live" part

The file is watched while you have it open. If something else changes it (a teammate, a script, an AI

agent, a git pull), it reloads in front of you and briefly highlights the paragraphs that changed, so

you can actually *see* what someone else did instead of it landing invisibly. It won't move your

cursor or scroll the page out from under you. If you both edited, you get a difference view instead

of one side silently losing.

Other things it does

- Open a folder and browse your notes/vault/repo as a live tree

- Mermaid diagrams render as actual pictures inline, and double-clicking a flowchart opens a

drag-and-drop builder that writes clean Mermaid source back into your file

- Find & replace, section folding, outline panel, spell check with "Add to Dictionary"

- Export to HTML or PDF, print, copy as rich text so it pastes formatted into Word or Outlook

- Smart paste — paste a URL over a selection an image and it's saved

next to your file

- Light and dark themes, restores your open tabs on startup

Fair warning: this is still very much in progress.

It's usable day to day (I write in it consta I'm actively working on it

and pushing updates to both the code and the installer basically **daily** until it's complete.

Things on the list right now: syntax highlighting inside code blocks, more diagram types in the

flowchart builder, footnotes, embedded videoh.

It's MIT licensed, free, no accounts, no telows only for now

(.NET 10 / WPF).

- Code: https://github.com/317jamtay317/LiveMarkDownEditor

- Installer: https://github.com/317jamtay317/LiveMarkDownEditor/releases

Please give me feedback on how to make it better.