markpad

Markpad (Work in Progress)

A minimal markdown editor with live preview and GitHub Gist publishing.

You can find our development on GitHub's YouTube weekly!

Features

• Live Markdown Preview: Edit markdown with real-time styled preview
• File Management: Open, save, and manage markdown files
• GitHub Gist Publishing: One-click publish to GitHub Gists
• Smart Authentication: Automatically uses existing GitHub CLI or Copilot credentials, falls back to device flow
• Auto-naming: Unsaved files are named from the first heading in dash-case

Installation & Usage

Development

npm install
npm start

Build

npm run make

The built executable will be in the out/ directory.

Authentication

Markpad tries authentication in this order:

1. GitHub CLI (gh) if logged in
2. GitHub Copilot CLI if authenticated
3. GitHub OAuth device flow (prompts for code)

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Ctrl/Cmd+N - New file
• Ctrl/Cmd+O - Open file
• Ctrl/Cmd+S - Save file
• Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+S - Save as
• Ctrl/Cmd+G - Publish to Gist

License

ISC