ZenWriter

A simple markdown editor that gets out of your way

It's a text editor for those that want the ability to write formatted Markdown documents with absolutely no distraction.

It consumes < 200mb of memory, nearly no CPU, and starts up near instantly. Builds are available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux in the release section.

Built in Tauri and Sveltekit using Milkdown for the editor.

Screenshots

Installation

Binaries for MacOS, Windows, and Linux are available in the releases section (soon).

ZenWriter has no need for an installation directory, but there are installers available in .dmg and .exe.

Building from source

To build from source, you'll require Rust and NodeJS. To build this app, clone the repository and then run npm run tauri build. The binaries can be found in /tauri-src/target/release.

Roadmap

This repository went public at what I consider to be the V1.0 release. There are still outstanding bugs & issues, but for now I need some time away from this project. As of right now, here are the unresolved bugs and features:

• Bug with saved indicator not working when file is saved with a dialog
• Lack of file associations (waiting for Tauri docs on that one)
• Lack of support for keybind based saving
• Lack of saving of preferences
• No responsive scaling of text sizes to window sizes (potentially not needed)

License

MIT