Welcome to The Lab.

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

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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

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I took Simplenote out of nvALT 3.0 because login had quietly died. People still wanted it, though, and it turned out the notes API was fine. Only the old password door was gone. 3.0.5 puts sync back, with the email-code login Simplenote uses now, plus a few papercuts from the new build. fonts, macos, nvalt, simplenote, sync

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I put together a small DEVONthink script that publishes the Markdown notes you have selected to Marked Share. The notes stay private, and publishing one again updates the same document instead of making a second copy. devonthink, markdown, marked, markedshare, recording, scripting, sharing

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The Marked help site, and the copy that ships inside Marked, is generated from a pile of Markdown in a single folder. For a long time that pile was fed to MultiMarkdown. It now goes through Apex. apex, customization, documentation, linking, markdown, marked, reading, ruby, scripting, wiki

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Wiki links now work on Marked Share. Type a note’s name in double brackets and, when someone reads the page, that name becomes a link to the matching document. The match stays inside the same library folder, so two notes called “Meeting” in different folders do not steal each other’s links. editor, linking, markdown, marked, markedshare, sharing, wiki

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SearchLink can now look through Zen bookmarks and history the same way it already did with Firefox (and Chrome and Safari). Zen keeps its history and bookmarks in a Mozilla database, so grew a . history, linkding, linking, markdown, search, searchlink, service, shortcuts

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Marked Share just took another big step toward full folder sync. The API can now take a folder full of Markdown in bulk, process it in the background, and keep it in step with your local copy in both directions. export, journaling, markdown, marked, markedshare, nvultra, personal, reading, scripting, search, server, sharing, sync

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Callouts (as popularized by Obsidian and GitHub) are one of those features that seem simple until someone really puts them to work. One user did exactly that. He sent me a document with callouts nested inside callouts, with tables and task lists tucked inside those, and asked why it didn’t render the way he expected. apex, linking, markdown, marked, markedshare, sharing, tables, updates

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