The Markdown Link no. 7
Links that attracted my attention recently
An occasional post from The Markdown Handbook.
Among today’s links are: Blogatto, a static site generator; Kirby’s CMS is on sale, again; a piece of software that brings indent mode to markdown; markdown editor Ghostmd; and, Tokie, which transforms your markdown files into a database.
- Static site generator Blogatto is a framework for building static blogs with Lustre and markdown. It generates your static site from a single configuration: blog posts from markdown with frontmatter, static pages from Lustre views, RSS feeds, sitemaps and robots.txt. Blogatto has custom components for markdown rendering, configurable blog-post templates, and a dev server with file watching to auto-rebuild and live reload your site.
- Kirby’s spring sale started this week allowing you to save 20% until 23 March. Better get your skates on.
- Markdown-indent-mode is a small Emacs package that brings org-indent-mode-style visual indentation to markdown files. Whatever floats your boat…
- The Reeader extension for Vivaldi – my current browser – is available from the Chrome Webstore. There are many extensions claiming to do the same thing, but I like the look of Reeader. It gets rid of ads and subscription pop-ups, but It also gets rid of images, which I’m less bothered about. I’d be interested to hear which readers you use. Email me your suggestions, especially if they export to markdown.
- Ever wanted to return to a pure markdown experience, with no preview. Ghostmd is a native macOS note-taking app with no configuration options. It works well and looks good, but I hate it when developers assume a one-size-fits-all configuration. There’s no control over font size, reading/writing width and bracket pairing, which makes it no good for a crusty old bugger like me with fading eyesight. Even nvALT, that most basic of markdown editors, offers control over these attributes. That said, I do like the fact that Ghostmd is keyboard-first, with Emacs text navigation, a command palette and that it auto-saves every keystroke.
- Tokie is an interesting, and complicated app to describe. What I will say is that allows you to manage your files like a database if you have that kind of ordered mind, edit notes without opening them, preview websites, and edit code files without an IDE. It’s worth a look.