Lettera

Christian Tietze: 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. I’ve always liked Bear’s look and feel, but i’ve never liked the idea of putting my notes in a locked-down database. Enter Lettera – it’s basically Bear without the database. You might think we don’t need yet another Markdown editor, but each one has its flaws, and more than one perfectly fine editor has become a bloated mess after a few misguided “upgrades”. We can never have too many choices. The current beta is still rough around the edges, but it’s promising. You can enable the file browser, the table of contents, the style bar and document statistics to work on big projects, but you can also hide all the complexity away to work on single files. It’s difficult to explain why, but it feels right, neither too simple nor too complex. The name is the cherry on the cake.…