Typora! I just found it recently, but maan, I was searching for something like this for a long time! It is basically a Markdown editor but with an unique touch and extra features like outline, sidebar browser, built-in image viewer and stuff. It's very beautiful.
Typora also handles copy-pasting of images really well. It essentially copies the files to an assets folder next to your md document. If you paste image data from the clipboard it will create the file too.
It does look like a very polished Markdown editor and is available for Mac, Win and Linux.
Unfortunately it is neither open source, nor will it be free after the Beta.
... paid software certainly has its place, but with no clear pricing info, nor any concrete info about who's behind it, it makes me hesitate to jump on board. It does look really good though.
They are not comparable. Typora can handle images, render graphs, render markdown and show outlines and is cross platform. It also let's you edit markdown in a WYSIWYG-format.
Notepad can't do any of that.
Do you also complain about the size of blue-ray movies, when .txt documents are so much smaller?
The idea that i am using inefficient software boggles my mind. My laptop SSD is 128gb. Unpacked version of this software would be 100MB+ installation. It will also take a lot of my RAM during usage. So for a "truly minimal markdown editor" i get such a monster in my system.
Lets take another monster, Visual Studio Code. Its installation is 72mb, but i get so much more installing it including markdown editor.
To each their own. I far prefer my UX at the cost of RAM. I agree, there are a lot of abstractions in languages which leads to this bloat, but do I think we'd have better user experiences if everyone write perfectly efficient assembly? I don't, fwiw. Do you?
I know you're not suggesting everything needs to be perfect. We just have different lines we draw where our UX outweighs things like RAM or disk space. For me, if it gives a great UX, 75MB is a tiny fraction of my RAM, I'd gladly pay it.
Besides, I'm only going to have one copy of this thing running. If it was 75MBx25 or something then I'd be concerned, but 75x1? meh.
For my use case (.net development, visual studio) windows used to be superior, more efficient choice. Now, after the release of .NET Core and Visual Studio Code i might re-evaluate it.
And yet it's apparently completely foreign to you that others may make that exact same choice regarding other software?
(And this is coming from a guy that used to program entirely on text editors, because I didn't like how bloaty Eclipse was... I'm not deaf to your plight. I'm just curious that the idea of others making trade offs is so foreign to you.)
Why not be conscious about these things? I have a lot more than 128GB on my system, but I still don't want to install dozens of 100+MB apps to solve just one problem each. Eventually you will run out of disk space with that approach.
Why install a single-purpose Markdown editor when you already have VSCode installed that is an excellent Markdown editor plus a lightweight IDE for nearly every language ever?
One tool, one job is fine for things that actually stick to the Unix principle and keep it lightweight and minimal. Single-purpose apps should be aiming at the 10MB mark, not 100MB. At 100MB+, you can probably find a multipurpose app to do the same job just as well if not better.
https://typora.io/