A blogger migrated their 20-year-old WordPress site to Astro static site generator, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, citing maintenance burden, performance gains, and greater control. The migration involved converting 61 WordPress posts to Markdown, preserving URLs and comments through Giscus.
Markdownee is a web scraper that converts website content to Markdown, HTML, or plain text using Trafilatura Core, an open-source extraction engine available in TypeScript and Python. It offers customizable crawling options for links, depth, boilerplate removal, and content filtering, with a simple npx command for quick usage.
PureStack is a TypeScript-native frontend framework that builds static websites from Markdown content and TypeScript components. It provides a CLI for development, preview, and production builds, combining content management with type-safe behavior through a unified source model.
Markdown Viewer is a macOS application that enables Quick Look preview and PDF opening of Markdown documents with GitHub-flavored Markdown support. It renders Markdown as formatted text in Finder and converts documents to paginated PDFs for Preview, supporting light/dark modes and local images via relative links.
docexp is a minimal documentation tool that expands code blocks in Markdown files by parsing them as JSON and executing them through user-defined expander scripts, offering a simpler alternative to Jupyter Notebooks without custom file formats or complex execution environments.
A user repeatedly attempts to abandon Emacs for note-taking apps like Bear, seeking simplicity and avoiding lock-in, but ultimately returns to Emacs using Denote with Markdown files after realizing app-based systems feel restrictive. Despite the pattern of cycling back, they remain considering a bridge between Denote and Bear.
Nostos is a self-hosted application that integrates reading, note-taking, and writing in one environment. Users can manage physical books, EPUBs, PDFs, and audiobooks; capture contextual notes and highlights; connect ideas through a wiki-like topic system; and draft writing projects with source material accessible alongside. The interface prioritizes focused work over social features and engagement mechanics.
A tool that checks documentation readability for AI agents using 23 criteria across 7 categories, including content discoverability via llms.txt, markdown availability, page size management, and URL stability. The platform offers agent-friendly features like auto-generated indices, markdown versions of pages, server-rendered content, and public access without login requirements.
Rutter is a tool that maintains a shared decision memory across AI tools by storing decisions and their referenced notes in plain Markdown files you control. It tracks what you decided, which notes informed the decision, and lets you retrieve that context later even when switching between different AI tools, with built-in handling for file renames and reference tracking.
Folio is a free, open-source Markdown editor and reader for Windows and Linux with a distraction-free interface, live preview, and offline-first design. It stores files locally without subscriptions, offers customizable themes and keyboard shortcuts, and supports multiple languages and export formats.
Whitedeck is a command-line tool that converts markdown into presentation slides styled after Apple Keynote's plain White theme, outputting to HTML, PDF, PPTX, and native .key formats. Designed for AI agents to generate professional slides without decorative excess, it enforces Apple's exact layout geometry and supports cross-platform builds on macOS, Linux, and Windows.