MarkMyWords is a markup editor mostly intended for writers. In this regard, it is excellent that it supports most of the markup languages that are commonly used to create publications, which include MultiMarkdown, Textile, Smark, Wikitext and BBCode. The application is very easy to use; however, it logically requires knowing how to use markup code.
It is good that the editor comes with its own file browser, which facilitates managing your documents. It is characterized by having two panels. The first is where you type your code while the other allows previewing the results in real time. As most users would like to see how their documents will look like in different browsers, it is good that you can set the preview to use different stylesheets or even create new ones. The editor itself is quite customizable. So, in addition to changing the default fonts and background color, you can also enable the distraction-free mode, which is supposed to let you focus on the contents of your writing instead of superfluous aspects.
There are various features intended to increase your productivity. In this respect, the one with the highest impact is OneClick Styles, used to apply quick formatting. Luckily, there are multiple styles to choose from. Besides, you can even modify the built-in styles or create your own. Likewise, there are various templates to start different types of publications. Again, it is possible to create custom templates for special needs.
Other features with an evident impact on your productivity are syntax highlighting as well as quick navigation to different sections of your document via headlines. Moreover, you can use markers as reminders of the work still to do. Finally, you can use markers for yourself or as part of the collaboration, which includes adding, removing, highlighting, commenting and replacing notes.
MarkMyWords supports importing from external files in different formats. Regrettably, importing Textile documents may take longer than expected, though. There is also a convenient browser extension that allows selecting a piece of text and importing it directly to the editor. Similarly, the application can export documents to other formats, such as PDF, RTF, DOC, ODT and HTML. Last but not least, it is good to know that you can incorporate more features by taking advantage of the tool’s support of plugins.
In general, MarkMyWords offers most of the features you would expect from an editor of its type. As said, it helps you increase your productivity as a writer by avoiding repetitive tasks and focusing on the contents of your articles. The product can be tried at no cost and bought from the Apple Store at an affordable price.
v1.4
- new Bundle-System, add your own bundles, written in Objective-C/Cocoa, to enhance MarkMyWords
- some interface changes
- Textile-Parser updated from version 2.0 to version 2.4
- new Preference-Option to make line-gutter look thinner
- new, fast CSS Style Selection from the web-preview-options-bar, immediately reloads the contents with new selected style
- add as many CSS Styles to MarkMyWords as you like via the preferences
- Convert to-commands now accessible through the main-menu too. File > Convert to... and then choose your preferred option
- new Preference-Option to define the pre-selected Markup-Language on new documents or documents not previously opened with MarkMyWords
- new autoscrolling behavior for preview area, follows the current cursor position. If you want the old, fixed preview-scrolling behavior go to preferences section Webpreview and select "Do not autoscroll preview"
- new Preference-Option to turn off the welcome-page within the preview-area for new documents
- Headline-Navigation now indents headlines for better visual separation
- Headline-Navigation now more reliable in case two headlines have the same wording or the headline is also part of the normal text
- Headline-Navigation after jumping to the specific headline, this headline is being selected so text can be edited right away
- Syntax-Coloring-Style for wikitext improved, to get the new style go to Preferences > Markups and "Reset all styles"
- improved save-behavior of the One-Click-Style-Editor, now saves immediately
- restyled layout for Plugin/Bundle-Preferences
- removed some resources not needed any longer
- new layout for the Preferences
- improved Icons throughout the application
- better recognition of files through the file-system for files with standard-extensions (File-extensions the file-system will associate with MarkMyWords [in case no other application claim these file-extensions for itself]: markdown, mkdn, mdown, md, markdn, markd, mmd, multimarkdown, mmkdn, mmdown, mmarkdn, mmarkd, tex, textile, wiki, wik, wikitext, bbc, bbcode, smark, smk)
- special icons for files associated with MarkMyWords
- several internal, non visual, changes
- layout-selector moved from bottom-bar to the toolbar
- bottom-bar in documents is by default removed. You can bring it back via the preferences if you want it back
- improved handling of opening files
- fixed bug where Headline-Navigation displayed unwanted markup for BBCode, Textile, HTML, Smark
- some German localization-errors fixed
- solved bug displaying CSS-Link which is not part of the actual text
- some word-corrections
- solved a crash-bug when using MarkMyWords with HiDPI-Resolution
- solved a Lion-Fullscreen-bug, when entering the Fullscreen, the split-views got messy
