Press Spacebar on a Markdown file and macOS will now draw something. The latest system ships its own Markdown Quick Look plugin, so you get a tidy little preview instead of a wall of monospace. It is fine. It is also the preview equivalent of a plain cracker. If the note has a diagram, a table of contents, a house style, or one of those Markdown dialects you swore you would stop using, you are still looking at a sketch of the document.
extensions, macos, markdown, marked, markedql, plugins, quicklook, styles, tables
nvALT 3.0.36 is out, and the stretch from 3.0.32 to here is mostly the editor catching up with the way I actually write notes. Highlights show up while I type, CriticMarkup is readable without opening Preview, and a pile of small window bugs stopped getting in the way.
criticmarkup, editor, macos, markdown, marked, nvalt
nvALT now understands GitHub-style task lists. A checkbox is just text in the note, the editor treats it like a task, and the preview draws it as one.
editor, markdown, nvalt, tasks
I made a couple of nvALT themes for inspiration. They’re not my best work, I’m still partial to Svelte, but they might give you a launching board for making your own.
editor, nvalt, theme, themes
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bookmarks, macos, music, screenshot
I took another pass at the editor to fill in what I considered to be missing pieces. The nvALT project page has the full writeup. This is the short version of the things I released this morning.
linking, markdown, nvalt, themes
Another update to nvALT. This is probably going to keep happening. Mermaid, MathJax, and updated documentation are included this time.
apex, markdown, mathjax, mermaid, nvalt, updates
I’ve been putting a lot of effort into BlogBook, my new app for creating archival books from years of blog posts. I have it thoroughly tested with WordPress, and complete with Micro.blog, but I have yet to find someone with a Ghost blog who can run that integration through its paces.
blogbook, blogging
Thanks to Vehicare for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! This turned out to be the app I always needed for my car. No remembering to keep a log of maintenance, just scan your invoices and it keeps track of everything for you. Brilliant.
sponsor
I spent some time this week making the Style Generator less fragile. If you’ve ever imported a theme and watched the preview turn into a pale imitation of the original, this is the fix.
css, customization, fonts, marked, nvalt, styles, themes
nvALT can be dressed up with themes now. The editor takes a MultiMarkdown Composer-compatible theme, the preview takes a Marked stylesheet (which is just CSS, any will work), and the notes list and window colors can be styled, too.
editor, fonts, markdown, marked, nvalt, nvultra, themes
nvALT is still a notes app. I don’t intend to make it a fully-fledged Markdown editor. I already had a bunch of this written for the Marked Dingus, though, and once the code existed it was harder to leave it over there than to bring the useful parts across.
editor, footnotes, formatting, linking, markdown, nvalt, shortcuts
