Marktwain.

A markdown editor for novels.

I love markdown and use IA Writer for pretty much everything, but it kind of stinks when I’m working on a novel and all the workarounds are a pain in the ass. I found Cheese Paper and it solved 90% of my problems, but didn’t let me do things like change fonts. I wanted to play with vibe coding to understand what it was capable of and the Kagi Starter account I bought for search came with access to Kagi Assistant, so one thing led to another and now there’s Marktwain.

It lets you edit text in markdown and supports just the basic markdown functions (i.e., bold, italics, headers). It keeps your chapters/scenes in order by renaming the files on the fly. It lets you add a summary, notes and tasks for each file and stores the metadata directly in each scene’s markdown file. It exports both your full manuscript (just the text) or your outline (titles and summaries) to a fresh markdown file that you can then style how you want using whatever you want.

All of this feels terribly dirty. And also pretty sweet.