Zettlr -- cross-platform (Electron-based) markdown editor for academics

Posted by jaslar
May 27, 2019 at 05:14 PM

I finally installed this on a fresh Linux system. Not bad! Folding (by header level) is turned on by default and works well. It’s missing a few cursor movement commands (move forward or back by paragraph), but it’s a pretty slick writing environment, with automatic footnotes, search by directory, live preview. There are a few oddities that I can probably chalk up to my noobie fumbling around, but it has word count (and targets), spell-check, navigation by headings, and more. It also inserts the automatic Zettelkasten notes for files. It has a night mode. It exports to HTML, PDF, Word, plaintext, org, Latex, and others. It even saved a file I hadn’t saved when I hit Ctrl-Q (working through the alphabet of commands). And it’s multi-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux).