Markdown Mini

A small Mac editor for the documents AI tools write. Read them as a clean page, highlight, comment, and keep the notes inside the file.

Markdown Mini with a document and its comment threads open in the side panel
Highlights open threads in the side panel. Replies can come from you or from an agent.

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and the rest produce Markdown all day: drafts, plans, notes, reports. Reading them as raw text is tiring, and sending feedback back to the agent means copying paragraphs into a chat.

Markdown Mini closes that loop. Open the file, read it as a clean page, mark up what you want changed, save. Your comments are now part of the file, and the agent sees them on its next pass.

Read it as a document#

Headings, lists, quotes, code and links render as you type. There is no preview pane and no split between source and result. When you do want the raw Markdown, one click switches to it and back.

A single article open in Markdown Mini
One window, one toolbar, the text.

Comments live in the file#

Select a passage and pick one of four marker colours. Every highlight opens a thread: write a note, get a reply, resolve it when it is done.

Highlights and threads are stored inside the .md file as plain HTML marks. Nothing is hidden in a database. Any agent that edits the file can read your notes, answer in the same thread and keep the marks in place. When you need a clean copy, Save Without Comments strips them all.

Two documents side by side#

Open a second file next to the first: a draft and its previous version, an article and its outline, two answers to the same question. Each pane has its own file, word count and comment panel.

Two documents side by side, the right one with its comments panel open
A reference on the left, the draft under review on the right.

Stays in sync#

When an agent rewrites the file on disk, the editor reloads it. Unsaved edits of your own are never overwritten.

Small by design#

Native macOS controls. Opens .md, .markdown and .txt from Finder, remembers recent files, works offline. No account, no sync service, no telemetry. Your files never leave your Mac.

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