Re:Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes
by minimal_action on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:43PM
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I found apostrophe to fit this requirement perfectly:
https://apps.gnome.org/en/Apostrophe/
Here's one: https://github.com/marktext/marktext
There are other suggestions at https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1023abr/what_is_the_...
I suspect GP was looking for non-electron apps since they said Obsidian is too heavy, so marktext won't cut it.
You guessing, based on an overgeneralization of "too heavy" (the context was quite explicitly opening a single file outside the Obsidian vault--nothing about electron), that it isn't what they're looking for provides no value to me (or to anyone else, for that matter). I was simply trying to be helpful; if marktext isn't what they want then they won't use it. The same for the other solutions I posted, such as using pandoc to generate html from markdown.
The idea of showing raw Markdown with just a few colors and maybe some bold/italic variations is compelling, but what about tables? Tables in Markdown can be very useful, but also a pain to type out/format manually.
Auto-save on every keystroke sounds good, but wouldn't that hammer the underlying storage too much for no reason?
And the installation instructions continuing the unfortunate trend of `curl | bash` doesn't help..
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On the topic of Markdown editors, what are the current recommendations (primarily for Linux)? Obsidian is a crowd favorite, but it seems too heavy if I want to only open a single file, especially outside of any vault. Something to preview/edit `README.md` files would be nice.