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write markdown. see it live.

full-featured markdown editor with toolbar, live preview, word count, and export. write with formatting shortcuts and see your output in real time.

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Welcome to the Markdown Editor

Start writing your document here. Use the toolbar above or write Markdown directly.

Features

  • Bold, italic, and strikethrough
  • Links and images
  • Code blocks with syntax highlighting
  • Tables, blockquotes, and lists
This is a blockquote. Use it for callouts or citations.
function greet(name) {
  return Hello, ${name}!;
}

Happy writing!

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Markdown

What this tool does

Write markdown in a split-pane editor with a live preview of the rendered output. Export as HTML, copy to clipboard, or download as a .md file. Runs entirely in your browser.

When to write in markdown vs an actual document tool

Markdown is the right tool for content that is fundamentally text — notes, blog posts, READMEs, documentation, emails-to-self, longer-form thinking. The lack of visual formatting controls is a feature: it forces the writer to focus on words rather than fiddling with fonts.

Markdown is the wrong tool for content that needs precise layout — pitch decks, complex tables, anything with positioned graphics, multi-column layouts. Use a proper document or design tool for those.

The middle ground (long documents with embedded images, tables, code) works in markdown but starts to push at the edges. If you find yourself writing more HTML than markdown to express what you mean, that is the signal to switch tools.

Why a live preview matters

Markdown has just enough quirks — list indentation, code block fencing, link syntax — that a live preview saves real time. The most common problems caught by a preview:

  • A list that breaks into separate lists because of a blank line between items.
  • A code block that did not fence correctly and shows up as inline-formatted text.
  • A link with a typo in the syntax that renders as literal punctuation rather than a hyperlink.
  • A heading with no blank line before it that gets collapsed into the previous paragraph.

What gets exported

Two output formats:

  • Markdown source — the raw .md file you can import into any other markdown tool.
  • Rendered HTML — the preview output, ready to paste into a CMS, email body, or anywhere that accepts HTML.

Browser-only

Editing and rendering both happen in the tab. Nothing is synced anywhere or stored on a server. Closing the tab discards the content (the editor uses local storage to persist between sessions on the same device). For a one-shot conversion without the editor experience, use markdown to HTML.

What this tool does

Write markdown in a split-pane editor with a live preview of the rendered output. Export as HTML, copy to clipboard, or download as a .md file. Runs entirely in your browser.

When to write in markdown vs an actual document tool

Markdown is the right tool for content that is fundamentally text — notes, blog posts, READMEs, documentation, emails-to-self, longer-form thinking. The lack of visual formatting controls is a feature: it forces the writer to focus on words rather than fiddling with fonts.

Markdown is the wrong tool for content that needs precise layout — pitch decks, complex tables, anything with positioned graphics, multi-column layouts. Use a proper document or design tool for those.

The middle ground (long documents with embedded images, tables, code) works in markdown but starts to push at the edges. If you find yourself writing more HTML than markdown to express what you mean, that is the signal to switch tools.

Why a live preview matters

Markdown has just enough quirks — list indentation, code block fencing, link syntax — that a live preview saves real time. The most common problems caught by a preview:

  • A list that breaks into separate lists because of a blank line between items.
  • A code block that did not fence correctly and shows up as inline-formatted text.
  • A link with a typo in the syntax that renders as literal punctuation rather than a hyperlink.
  • A heading with no blank line before it that gets collapsed into the previous paragraph.

What gets exported

Two output formats:

  • Markdown source — the raw .md file you can import into any other markdown tool.
  • Rendered HTML — the preview output, ready to paste into a CMS, email body, or anywhere that accepts HTML.

Browser-only

Editing and rendering both happen in the tab. Nothing is synced anywhere or stored on a server. Closing the tab discards the content (the editor uses local storage to persist between sessions on the same device). For a one-shot conversion without the editor experience, use markdown to HTML.

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