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Markdown Editor with Obsidian-style Preview

Hi there,

I am searching for an Markdown Editor, with a similar Live-Preview feature to Obsidian. In particular, I do not want to split the view into source and preview, but have the preview as the main window and only switch to source code for the line/block I am currently editing. Nextcloud uses a similar feature for their in-browser editor, but I need an offline variant.

Do you have any suggestions?

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  • Silverbullet is like that. It is not an electron or native app, you have to run a server and then get to it from the browser.

    TLDR it is best run with docker or podman, but IMHO it is pretty good.

  • Marktext does this for me, can't compare 100% to Obsidian as I've rage uninstalled that several times within an hour of installing it.

  • QOwnNotes (https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes) may be an option as it is pure Markdown and need not have both the code and preview windows open. I used it before moving to Obsidian. It has some options to customise its window views, but it is a long time since I used it, so not sure if it has that block mode you want. Logseq I seem to recall worked with blocks as it is an Outliner that does save in Markdown format, but I did not like that the outline blocks added characters to the file format that slightly broke compatibility with standard Markdown formats. But blocks was Logseq's strength.

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