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Re:Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge mana... by tweetle_beetle on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:17AM (#23724724)
Seeing as your list is pretty comprehensive, it might be worth having a look at Writemonkey. It's been in development since 2006 - so long before the markdown editor trend in recent years, and probably even pre-dating the distraction-free trend about a decade ago.

The most recent incarnation (v3) fits your two criteria well and its plugin system is very versatile. Sadly cross platform supports only came with version 3 and that means saying goodbye to the small Windows native downloads, but it's not an Electron monstrosity.

Just a long time fan and always feel a bit disappointed that it never comes up in these kind of discussions :)

http://www.writemonkey.com/wm3/

(And in a pinch, away from my own machine, StackEdit is great.)

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Re:Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge mana... by miles on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:04PM (#23726544)
> Sadly cross platform supports only came with version 3 and that means saying goodbye to the small Windows native downloads, but it's not an Electron monstrosity.

Yes, it's NW.js instead of Electron, but that's still an almost 100MB framework (and the >50MB sounds directory doesn't help much either). It's also closed source, though the documentation is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/writemonkey/wm3/wiki/Documentation .

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Re:Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge mana... by tweetle_beetle on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:20AM (#23770101)
I wish it was native too, but I just meant it's not as bad as it could be on that front - 200ish MB RAM compared to some of the famous Electron examples.

The sounds are from the zen/focus software trend days, when you have minimal distractions from the interface and background noise loops built in.

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Re:Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge mana... by dddw on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:24PM (#23726720)
Wow, indeed weird I never heard of it. Looks pretty great! Multiplatform, text files as base. Gonna give it a spin.
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