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Zettlr -- cross-platform (Electron-based) markdown editor for academics
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 21, 2018 at 04:36 PM
Well, back in August, after reading this exchange, I downloaded Zettlr—and then promptly forgot about it.
I’ve just installed it now, and I have to say it’s a rather nice poor person’s Ulysses: really quite powerful, with a great search function, plus the ability to create projects with subdirectories and “virtual directories’ (I’m not quite sure what those are yet—I’ve created a couple, but they don’t appear to have any settings/parameters, and of course I haven’t RTFM yet).
The app is quite large at 170MB, and there’s a lack of subtlety at the moment (you can’t choose your font or adjust font sizes; the preview screen doesn’t appear to work, and other little things are missing), but it’s very stable, has some nice features (headings appear at different sizes in the hybrid markdown view; tasks are supported and shown as checkboxes rather than - [ ], and it has a built-in Pomodoro counter), and the search works across files as well as within them (very fast, too, although I haven’t got a great deal of data in there yet).
Well worth a look!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 23, 2018 at 08:38 AM
Actually, I lied (inadvertently!): I hadn’t noticed that there is a magnification option, you can enlarge/reduce the size of displayed text. Given it’s all in Markdown anyway, this seems perfectly adequate to me.
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).