Guides

Short, practical guides to markdown on the Mac.

• How to read Claude and ChatGPT markdown beautifully on a Mac

  AI tools answer in markdown. Here is how to turn those .md files into pages worth reading, with real typography and themes, on your Mac.

• Beautiful markdown themes for Mac

  Fourteen handcrafted reading themes for markdown on macOS, from warm parchment to dark neon. Preview them live and pick one that fits.

• Markdown to a gorgeous PDF on Mac

  Turn a .md file into a clean, well-set PDF on your Mac, offline, in the theme you read it in. No upload, no converter websites.

• How to open a .md file on Mac

  What a .md file is, the ways to open one on macOS, and how to make every markdown file open rendered with a double-click.

• ChatGPT gave me a .md file. Google Docs or a Mac reader?

  Google Docs now opens .md files. When that is enough, and when a local Mac reader with themes, offline use and Quick Look is the better fit.

• Lumd vs Marked, Typora, Google Docs and free viewers

  An honest comparison, with prices checked against each developer's site.