Lettera: A Refined Markdown Document Editor

For a while now I’ve been working with the people at Shiny Frog – the team behind Bear – on something new. Today it goes into beta testing. It’s called Lettera, and it’s a Markdown editor for macOS. Here’s the short version: take the editor you know from Bear – the live styling, the tables, the inline images, code, and math, the whole feel of writing in it – and point it at your own files instead of a shared database. It’s just plain .md files, sitting in folders on your disk. It’s the stuff I like. You open a single file for a quick edit, and it’s just that file. Or you open a folder and get a sidebar listing of the directory tree, a whole workspace so you can move between documents without leaving the app. Either way, what you edit is the file itself. Rename it in Finder, move it around, sync it however you like – Lettera follows along instead of fighting you. For someone who lives in plain text and cares a great deal about where files live and who owns them, getting to put Bear’s…