Monknot

What it does

Monknot is a native macOS app for working with Markdown, PDFs, and terminal sessions side by side. Read and edit Markdown with a rendered preview, search and annotate PDFs, and run tools like Claude Code or Codex in a terminal beside the document you're working on.

Edit local Markdown and text files, preview and export Markdown, annotate PDFs, and run terminal sessions with optional on-device writing assistance.

Monknot edits Markdown, HTML, source code, and plain text in their existing folders. Preview and export Markdown, search text and PDFs, and use optional on-device writing assistance. All releases on GitHub Download started — open the .dmg and drag Monknot to Applications Edit Markdown and plain text with tabs, document search, and Markdown syntax highlighting. Choose separate light and dark presets. Adjust the accent, background, foreground, contrast, UI text size, and code text size infrom monknot.app

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