Marked 2 - Markdown Preview App Reviews

Marked 2 is awesome. I am in love with it. Write in plaintext, format in markdown, and preview/output in Marked. I’m in love with it.

I use the Notes app to take notes since this allows me to easily share it across my devices. I was expecting the app to be able to load itself as an option to the `Services` menu. I hope this is in the works, or perhaps it is already there and I just wasnt able to figure it out. **Edit** Just found that the `kotfu/marked-bonus-pack` in GitHub provides workflow files that achieves what I want. I am very satisfied with this purchase!

Worked like a champ until 2.5. Crashes when exporting on Yosemite; oddly, works on my other computer (Mavericks).

These two apps can work together and perform well. Ulysses is the best and most beautiful app for markdown editor and Marked 2 is the best app for document previewer. They are a best team for programmer and author to take notes or write.

Finally, a document processor that I love! It lets you use any text editor you want, like BBEdit, Vim, whatever, and write in the MarkDown markup. Then, when you do a save in your text editor, the Marked 2 window shows you what your document will look like. Very easy to use, very easy learning curve, very nice looking app. You can export your document to one of many different formats like PDF, RTF, DOCX, HTML, etc. I am using it to document my code using the GitHub flavor of MarkDown. Great app! Highly recommended.

Marked combines the features of dozens of different other applications (many of them command-line based) into one elegantly designed and easy to use interface. Marked makes it pretty easy to turn your plain text into beautiful PDFs, Word docs, styled-HTML, and more. Really really great stuff. You should buy this app and support the development. It’s pretty inexpensive for all of the text processing features that it packs.

I’ve been a longtime user of nValt (also by Brett Terpstra — follow the link to his website above), so I kept giving MarkDown a try, but it never really clicked with me until I got this app. The ability to customize the stylesheet (CSS) to make my documents match my needs and to be able to see a preview of exactly what it will look like when I’m done while still enjoying the simplicity of writing in plain text is just amazing. I love that I can export to Word .docx (not that I like Word, but I have to work with other people…), HTML, and PDF. Each has it’s own use in my workflow, each with a different style. Marked 2 is also very flexible - being able to embed my style into the exported HTML or export vanilla HTML is perfect for when I need to embed some content into a CMS where I’m not publishing the entire page. I’ve run into a few things over the years (e.g. weird permission problems when I updated to Yosemite) and Brett is super responsive. I actually bought the non-AppStore version for myself, but got this so my wife could use it too. If you are even mildly interested in MarkDown then get this program today. You won’t regret it.

Okay, folks. I generally write books, not reviews. But here goes… Marked 2 is an EXCELLENT tool for polishing up my “finished” manuscripts. In quotes, of course, because the book isn’t truly done until I’ve hit up Marked 2. It helps me catch all of the words I tend to overuse, like “back” and “against”. (I write a lot of action and – brace yourself – erotica. So blocking words are real trouble for me.) Marked 2 catches a lot of passive voice, too, and even integrates pretty smoothly with Scrivener. Just grab the Scrivener file and drop it onto the Marked icon. If you have a long novel, Marked CAN choke a bit on live-previewing changes. But it only grabs documents from the “Manuscript” folder in Scrivener, so I only throw a couple of chapters at a time into that folder for edits, then cycle the new one in. When I’m done, everything goes back into “Manuscript”. The spelling and grammar check aren’t anything particularly special, but let’s be honest – that’s not what I’m using Marked for. So if you need a tool to help you find your problem words and blast their sorry butts, Marked is perfect. (Especially since the latest update, which includes 3-letter word repetitions and prepositions.)