Today we're launching md0 v1.0.
md0 is a set of browser-based markdown tools. The whole thing runs client-side, so nothing you write touches our servers. There's no account to create and nothing to install.
What's in v1.0
Editors
The live editor is a split-pane editor with instant preview. Write markdown on the left, see rendered output on the right. Your work saves automatically to browser storage, so closing the tab and coming back picks up where you left off.
For a more traditional editing experience, there's also a standard editor and a WYSIWYG editor that lets you format text visually without writing any markdown syntax.
Table tools
Markdown tables are tedious to write by hand. The table generator gives you a visual grid editor where you add rows and columns by clicking. You can also paste in data from Excel or Google Sheets and get clean markdown output immediately.
For data going the other direction, there's CSV to table, Excel to table, and HTML table to markdown.
Converters
- Markdown to HTML: clean, semantic HTML5 output with GitHub Flavored Markdown support
- Markdown to PDF: export formatted PDFs with multiple themes, all generated in the browser
- HTML to markdown: convert existing HTML pages or snippets back to clean markdown
Generators and formatters
- README generator: structured README files for GitHub projects
- Table of contents generator: generate a linked TOC from any markdown document
- Markdown formatter: clean up inconsistent markdown formatting
- Link checker: find broken links in your markdown files
Why it's all client-side
Sending your content to a server to process it introduces latency, raises privacy questions, and adds a dependency on our infrastructure being up. Running everything in the browser avoids all of that.
The trade-off is that some operations are slower on older hardware. For the document sizes most people work with, this isn't noticeable in practice.
What's next
The tools in v1.0 cover the most common markdown workflows. Based on what people actually use, we'll expand from here. If there's something you want that's missing, the contact page is the fastest way to tell us.
The md0 CMS is also in development. It's built on the same philosophy: markdown-first, with GitHub as the backend. More on that when it's ready.