mrkdwn is more than a markdown editor. It is a private place to think, and it keeps every note as an ordinary .md file in a folder you choose.
Other note apps ask you to trust a database. This one writes plain text to disk, where Finder, git, grep and any editor you ever switch to can already read it.
No account. No subscription. No analytics — mrkdwn collects nothing and sends nothing.
NOTES THAT STAY YOURS
• Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you picked, not a row in our database
• Edit one in another app and mrkdwn picks up the change
• The same files open in any other editor, today or in ten years
• Lock a note and it is encrypted on disk until you unlock it
• iCloud sync merges three ways and marks conflicts, instead of overwriting the older copy
• Version history keeps 30 days or 100 versions per note, with word-level diffs and a restore that leaves the current draft intact
• Deleted notes go to a trash you can recover from
NOTES THAT FIND EACH OTHER
• Wiki-style [[links]] resolve as you type
• A backlinks panel shows every note pointing at this one
• The knowledge graph draws the whole library, filtered by tag or search
• Tag a note, then open the tag to read everything filed under it
• Quick Open fuzzy-finds any note in a keystroke
• Link autocomplete the moment you type [[
• Daily notes arrive dated, every day you write
MARKDOWN THAT RENDERS PROPERLY
• CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, with footnotes and callouts
• LaTeX math, inline and block, rendered offline
• Syntax highlighting for more than 180 languages
• Six built-in themes, and you can make your own
• Mermaid, Graphviz and Markmap diagrams from ordinary code blocks
A SURFACE BUILT FOR DRAFTING
• Focus mode fades every paragraph except the one you are writing
• Read as editor only, preview only, or both side by side
• Typewriter scrolling holds your line in the middle of the screen
• Live counts for words, characters, sentences and reading time
• Put the command bar in the order you actually work in
• Give a folder an icon, a color, and a place at the top of the list
• Writing goals track a daily word target and your streak
• Authorship marks which passages you typed and which you pasted
• Apple's Writing Tools work in the editor, where your device offers them
NOTES THAT COME TO YOU
• Ask Siri for today's note; find, append and read notes from Shortcuts
• Paste a URL and the article comes back as markdown
• Clip a page straight from Safari (Mac)
• Import from 19 formats, including PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and text read out of images
SEE THE SHAPE OF A SENTENCE
• Color nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions as you type
• Style checks flag filler, hedging, repetition and passive voice
• Nothing is corrected for you — a flag is information, not an instruction
• Every highlight stays off until you switch it on
LEAVE WHENEVER YOU LIKE
• Export to PDF, EPUB, HTML, RTF, plain text and markdown
• Word and OpenDocument export, and Word import (Mac)
• Everything works offline, apart from fetching a web page you paste
• Or copy the folder and go — the notes were never ours
Native on Mac, iPad and iPhone, from one Swift core rather than a web page in a window.
A knowledge base you own, for students, teachers, authors, and anyone who would rather keep their thinking in plain files than rent a notes app.
Questions? www.buenalabs.io/support
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