I’ve been writing in Markdown since the day I learned about it back in, only God knows when. Since then, my main writing tool on my macOS was Sublime Text but for the last month or so, things have changed. I moved to Atom by Github and today, I am going to tell you how to turn Atom into the Best Markdown Editor for macOS.
IA Writer app is available in iOS/MacOS/Android. It supports extended syntax MultiMarkdown, which is more than enough for formatting and preparing a text to publish online. IA Writer has a number of ways to help you sort your library, it is helpful in project management and writing books. This is a simple and powerful note-taking app with stellar Markdown support. I love using it for preparing technical documentation for everything related to the software development process as it is easy to bring straight into online tools like GitHub with markdown formatting support.
If you’ve been reading my recent articles, I mentioned in two of them Sublime Text as an example app to use for code editing. From now on, this will change, instead, I will recommend Atom by Github because it’s free, open source and you can customize it any way you want through packages and themes.
For those of you who use Editorial app on iOS for writing like I do, these Atom packages that I mention below should make the experience really similar.
Let’s Take a Look at How to Turn Atom into the Best Markdown Editor for Mac. #
Now it’s not a secret that I like Markdown, I wrote many times about it and today is no different.
With just a few packages, Atom will be the only text editor you will ever need whenever you want to write in Markdown. It’s so good, that if you use Editorial on iOS, you will feel right at home.
Here are the packages you will need:
Markdown-Writer by Zhuochun#
This is the first base package you need to start your Markdown writing in Atom. This package adds all the features that you would expect to see in any Markdown text editor like:
It’s based on a keyboard shortcut. After installing it, you need to activate it and to do that, you will need to do the following:
You have just created Keymaps.
Now, in order to see all the keyboard shortcuts, open the command plate again and execute this command:
Markdown Writer: Open Cheat Sheet .
You should see all the shortcuts needed to start your new Markdown writing adventures with Atom.
Atom Tool Bar by Wojtek Siudzinski#
This package serves as the second base on our list to get this party fully started. You’ll need this to make the third package function properly.
How it works-it adds an empty toolbar which you can fill by installing one of its many compatible plugins.
Toolbar for Markdown-Writer by Zhuochun#
Now, we get to the good stuff. By taking advantage of the previous package, Toolbar for Markdown will add a toolbar that includes all the necessary editing tools that a Markdown writer needs.
Here’s the full list:
Markdown Preview by atom#Markdown Mac Os
Now, you got all your writing tools ready and set up. You’ll want to see how your final work is going to look as you’re writing.
This is the package for you. It comes pre-installed and it’s made by the people behind Atom themselves.
Remember the Markdown Preview button from the package above? It will toggle this on open.
Markdown Scroll Sync by Mark Hahn#
Your screen is split in half with a preview showing you that sweet Markdown preview. However, it doesn’t scroll while you type?
No problem, because that’s what this package is for.
That’s it. It sync your scrolls.
Browser Plus by skandasoft#
One of my favorite features in Editorial for iOS is the built in browser. It might sound strange to download a browser package for Atom when Chrome or Firefox is a
command + tab away.
I think it’s still good to have fully functioning browsers with all the great features that a browser has in Atom.
All you’ll need to do to open it is: press
control + option + O and you will get a browser with the following features:
Markdown Writer App Mac OsWordCount by nesQuick#
This package is for people who like to keep count and keep a close eye on how many characters and words they’ve written.
It displays them neatly in the status-bar and contains a writing goal tracker.
Plus, you can set a writing goal which is why there’s a red line under the numbers in the image above.
Markdown Folding by JoseBlanca#Best Markdown Writing App Mac
Last but not least. When you write a long article such as this one with multiple headings, instead of scrolling down and up, we can just fold these heading to close the sections of the articles that we are done with.
In order to activate this package after installing it, there’re couple of things that you have to do:
markdown by burodepeper#
Thanks to Michael Holley who recomended this package in the comments below.
What this great package allow you to do is get a real-time preview of Markdown without needing to open a preview panel.
Plus many other great features like:
And much more.
Conclusion: #
This should make Atom an exact replica of what Editorial app on iOS is. A perfect, simple yet so complicated Markdown text editor that is capable of doing pretty much anything your heart desires with all the packages that you’ve installed on it.
Markdown Writer App Mac Pro
If you know of more packages that could make Markdown even more, easier and enjoyable than it already is, then make sure to contact me.
I hope you find this tutorial useful and keep on marking down!
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