How to use the Markdown editor
Four steps from blank page to finished document — no account, nothing to install.
Type Markdown on the left, or start from a template (README, blog post, meeting notes, résumé, slides…). The toolbar and Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+K format the selection for you.
The preview renders as you type and scrolls with the editor. Switch between Edit, Split and View, drag the divider, or double-click the preview to jump to that line in the source.
Keep as many documents as you like in the sidebar, search and pin them, and use the Outline tab to jump between headings. Snapshots are saved while you write.
Download Markdown, HTML, PDF or Word, copy formatted text into Gmail or Google Docs, or share a link that carries the whole document inside it.
A real code editor built on CodeMirror, tuned for prose and Markdown.
- Lists
- continue on Enter, Tab indents
- Find
Ctrl+F/Ctrl+Shift+Freplace, regex- Keys
- standard, Vim, Emacs or Sublime
- Modes
- focus, typewriter and zen
GitHub-flavoured Markdown plus the extensions people actually use.
- Math
$x^2$and$$…$$with KaTeX- Diagrams
- Mermaid flowcharts, sequence, Gantt, pie, mind maps
- Music
- ABC notation as sheet music
- Extras
- callouts, footnotes, task lists, TOC, emoji
Bring content in without retyping it.
- Web / Word
- rich text pastes as clean Markdown
- Sheets
- pasted cells become a table
- Images
- paste or drop a screenshot to embed it
- Files
- drop .md, .txt or .html to open
Get your writing where it needs to go.
- Files
- .md, .html, .pdf, .doc, .txt
- Copy
- formatted text, HTML or Markdown
- Link
- editable or read-only, no server
- Present
- split on
---into slides (F5)
A free online Markdown editor that runs entirely in your browser
This Markdown editor with live preview is built for everything from a quick README to a long report. The source is on the left, the rendered page is on the right, and the two scroll together. It supports GitHub-flavoured Markdown — tables, task lists, fenced code with syntax highlighting for more than 35 languages, strikethrough and autolinks — plus footnotes, definition lists, abbreviations, highlight, sub- and superscript, emoji shortcodes, YAML front matter and a generated table of contents.
Technical writing is covered too: LaTeX math renders with KaTeX, Mermaid turns text into flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, pie charts and mind maps, and ABC notation becomes sheet music. GitHub-style callouts (> [!NOTE], [!TIP], [!WARNING]…) render exactly as they do on GitHub.
Private by design
Nothing you type is uploaded. Documents, settings and version history are stored in your browser's local storage, and share links carry the compressed document inside the URL itself, so there is no server copy to leak. The page keeps working if you lose your connection after it has loaded.
How it compares
Popular online editors such as StackEdit, Dillinger and HackMD set the bar for live preview, math and diagrams, cloud sync and export. This editor matches the writing and export features without asking you to sign in:
| Capability | This editor |
|---|---|
| Live preview with two-way scroll sync | Yes, plus double-click to jump to the source line |
| Multiple documents | Unlimited, with search, pinning and duplicates |
| Math, diagrams, sheet music | KaTeX, Mermaid, ABC notation |
| Version history | Automatic snapshots with view and restore |
| Paste from Word, Google Docs and web pages | Converted to Markdown automatically |
| Export | Markdown, HTML, PDF, Word and rich-text copy |
| Keyboard | Command palette, shortcuts, Vim / Emacs / Sublime modes |
| Account needed | No |
What it does not do: cloud sync between devices or real-time collaboration. Use a share link or an exported file to move a document to another device.
Keyboard shortcuts
- Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 — command palette (every action and every document)
- Ctrl+B / I / E / K — bold, italic, inline code, link
- Ctrl+Alt+1…4 — headings · Ctrl+Shift+7 / 8 / 9 — numbered, bullet and task lists
- Ctrl+Alt+T — insert a table · Ctrl+Alt+F — align the table under the cursor
- Ctrl+F find · Ctrl+Shift+F replace · Alt+G go to line
- Ctrl+S snapshot · Ctrl+P PDF · Ctrl+. zen mode · F5 present
On a Mac use ⌘ instead of Ctrl.