Pentel Sign Pen The 1963 felt-tip that went to space on a Gemini mission
Reviews
How Blackwing Pencils Are Made California cedar goes to Japan and comes back a pencil, in Blackwing's first film of its own process
Message Album One conversation, exported as a website that will still open in 2046
The HTML Review, Issue 05 Fifteen pieces of literature that only work as living web pages
Marked QL Real Markdown previews — Mermaid, math, syntax highlighting — from the Finder spacebar
Editorio Native macOS markdown + code editor, free on the App Store
Apex Markdown Processor One Markdown tool that renders every dialect — and shows images in your terminal
Timelined A personal timeline that's quietly perfect for medical history
Tot A scratchpad with exactly seven slots, on purpose
AntiNote Notes that fight against organizing themselves
Flux Markdown A markdown editor that flows
Finds
- Tiny Little Office An office suite where the link is the document
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip George Saunders's fable of orange pests, illustrated by Lane Smith
- Pentel Sign Pen The 1963 felt-tip that went to space on a Gemini mission
- Askdown Write a form the way you'd write a list
- Posty A digital postcard with a manufactured 7-to-14-day wait before it lands
- Tim's Markdown Reader A free Mac app that only reads Markdown, Mermaid diagrams included
- A New Yorker State of Mind Reading every issue of The New Yorker, in order, since 1925 — currently somewhere in 1936
- PACE Ti Tritium-Core Fountain Pen Grade 5 titanium with a glowing vial in the tail
- TypeSeer Grey text finishes your sentence, and the model never leaves the laptop
- Zebra DelGuard Two springs, one for pressing too hard and one for holding it wrong
- Busman's Holiday A graphic designer's second act, in pencils, on South Broadway
- Minilith A CMS that hides its own content inside a PNG's pixel data
- How Blackwing Pencils Are Made A pencil's 5,000-mile route from Kofu graphite to Stockton ferrule
- Traverse A macOS outliner with a Writer view, column browsing, and screenplay export
- A Life of One's Own Seven years of keeping evidence on your own happiness
- Marked Share A permanent home on the web for one Markdown file
- Texttile One entry, many authors, one keyboard at a time
- Message Album One conversation, exported as a website you can open in 20 years
- The Book of Delights One delight a day, birthday to birthday
- TeXbrain pdfTeX compiled in the tab, with the paper never leaving
- copynpaste Paste bold text into Slack and keep the bold
- Visimer Edit a Mermaid diagram by dragging the diagram instead of the syntax
- ThoughtDAG A canvas where the wire between two nodes is the context
- Uni-ball Signo Bit 0.18mm The world's thinnest ballpoint line, gel ink included
- Melanie Walsh Writing a book in Markdown, Quarto and Pandoc, next to a thrifted UW lava lamp
- Vonnegut's Eight Tenets of Storytelling Rule three: every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water
- Write.md A Markdown editor where you design the room, not the syntax colours
- textlog Microblogging with the JavaScript turned off
- Send Henry Poems Type a poem here and it prints on a stranger's thermal printer at home
- Hey Postcard Digital postcards that refuse to arrive on demand
- handwritten.blog Pages published exactly as you wrote them
- Paper A journaling CLI that leaves you receipts
- Field Notes Paletas Pocket notebooks dressed as Mexican paleta wrappers
- Text as Music Colors every sentence in your writing by length to reveal its rhythm
- Envy One box that searches, creates, opens and filters every note you have
- Lettera A native Mac Markdown editor from the Bear team, now in beta
- ArtfulType A Markdown editor built to run on classic 68k Macintosh computers, not a modern one
- AudioPen Voice notes rewritten in your own writing style, not a generic one
- MDV A Markdown viewer with a Quick Look extension and a CLI tool built in
- STILL Titanium Brush Pen One refillable pen for ordinary lines and full brushstrokes
- Edist A native macOS Typst editor with instant live preview
- How to Make a Journal of Your Life Dan Price's hand-lettered chapbook guide to visual journaling
- The HTML Review, Issue 05 A free annual journal of literature that can only exist on the web
- Noticky Sticky notes and reference images that stay put over fullscreen apps
- StepGrab Turns whatever you do on screen into a step-by-step guide
- Thoth Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
- EnviousWispr Offline dictation that cleans up after itself
- TeXposit A collaborative editor that turns Markdown into publication-quality LaTeX
- Journiv Self-hosted journaling with mood tracking and full data ownership
- Lettera File-system Markdown editor built on the Bear 2 engine
- Meditype Type Aurelius and Thoreau over ambient soundscapes, no clock
- Notchkin Keyboard-driven notes app that lives in the MacBook notch
- reMarkable Paper Pure Entry-level e-ink writing tablet with no distractions
- Writer Deck Resource List Comprehensive guide to distraction-free writing hardware
- Rescue Your nvALT Notes & Settings Database A Brett Terpstra recovery tool for users locked out of nvALT
- Editorio Native macOS markdown + code editor, free forever
- Marked 3 Brett Terpstra's Markdown previewer ships a major version
- Strflow A 'text yourself' notes app, native across Mac, iPad, iPhone
- iA Writer The benchmark for plain-text Markdown writing
- Lifetime Ration of Exclamation Points — "three" A working rule for prose: three exclamation points per career, used wisely.
- Apex Markdown Processor One Markdown tool that renders every dialect — and shows images in your terminal
- Refine Local-first writing assistant that runs entirely on-device
- Smol Pub Minimalist blogging on web, Gemini, and Gopher at once