{"repo":"john-mrty/Trace","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/john-mrty/Trace","clone":"git clone https://github.com/john-mrty/Trace.git","description":"A quiet place to write. Minimal Markdown editor for macOS — concealed syntax, no chrome, plain files. A MarkEdit fork.","language":"Swift","stars":15,"topics":["codemirror","editor","macos","markdown","swift","writing"],"license":"MIT","category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"Trace A quiet place to write. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dec29b29-f5f9-489a-a8e9-a56bba712419 Trace is a minimal Markdown writer for macOS, built for prose rather than code. It's built on the engine of the excellent MarkEdit — the same fast, native CodeMirror core — with the product designed around one idea: the words are the interface . Most Markdown editors make you choose: stare at raw syntax while you write, or split the screen with a preview pane. Trace does neither. The marks fade as you type, what remains reads like the finished piece, and everything else — toolbar, navigation, commands — stays out of sight until you reach for it. Download Download Trace — signed and notarized. Open the DMG, drag to Applications. Writing without the noise - Concealed syntax — , # , and friends disappear once written. Links become clickable text with a hover preview, checkboxes become real checkboxes that strike through when done, code blocks sit in panels with a copy button, images and tables render in place (click an image to view it full-size), and frontmatter tucks itself into a Properties chip. One toggle (⇧⌘H) brings back the plumbing as a proper source mode: raw marks, line numbers, live selection status. - Seamless glass window — no title bar band, no toolbar chrome. The document bleeds to the window edge over a subtly blurred backdrop, and scrolled text dissolves into a progressive blur before it reaches the traffic lights, in light and dark. - Focus mode (⇧⌘F) ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/john-mrty","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/john-mrty/Trace/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}