schuyler/macdown3000

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A modern, lightweight Markdown editor for macOS.

Stars: 464
Forks: 53
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 90

Dominant language: Objective-C
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Aug 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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90 open issues indexed

.md files show the Microsoft Word icon because MacDown does not claim public.markdown Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

schuyler/macdown3000#587 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
New unsaved documents are not restored after quitting and relaunching Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#586 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
"find" only works in md source, not in rendered content Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#584 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Show reading progress (% through the document) in the editor status bar Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

schuyler/macdown3000#581 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Laybout bug in the Preferences -> Rendering panel Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

schuyler/macdown3000#579 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Thanks a lot for this ! Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 1/100

schuyler/macdown3000#578 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Allow setting dark/light theme of the application independently of system settings Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#576 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Line spacing in headings are too tight Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

schuyler/macdown3000#575 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Add wrapping option for long bash/code lines. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

schuyler/macdown3000#573 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Pasting clipboard text from MacDown into Messages produces attachment, not plain text Open

rc-pending

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#571 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Highlighted keyword search is not available in the preview window. Open

bug enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#565 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2026
CFBundleVersion from commit count is not monotonic across release branches Open

enhancement infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

schuyler/macdown3000#564 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Preference to hide redundant horizontal rules in preview Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#560 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Automate channel-aware Sparkle appcast generation and publishing in the release workflow Open

enhancement infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

schuyler/macdown3000#554 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Reduce drift across the eleven bundled themes: backport `height: auto`, add a coverage test, consider a shared base Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 48/100

schuyler/macdown3000#549 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
VoiceOver screen reader does not announce certain formatting in the rendered view Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

schuyler/macdown3000#545 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Reduce number of popup 'keep/discard' dialogs Open

bug rc-pending

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

schuyler/macdown3000#543 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Follow-up polish from PR #532 review (heading slug dedup) Open

schuyler/macdown3000#539 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Selection count: per-mode defaults (word vs character vs char/space) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

schuyler/macdown3000#531 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Settings › Editor: "Insert auto line prefix" checkbox label truncated in localized panes Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

schuyler/macdown3000#530 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Relative and same-page anchor links in Markdown content cause preview to go blank (file:// navigation blocked) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

schuyler/macdown3000#527 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Fix Preferences pane-switch Hang Risk via MASPreferences post_install patch (upstream PR #1379, 2a7f56d) Open

dependencies performance rc-pending

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

schuyler/macdown3000#526 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Suppress handlebars-objc generated-parser build warnings via target OTHER_CFLAGS (upstream PR #1379, ae62fb1) Open

dependencies infrastructure

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 84/100

schuyler/macdown3000#525 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Fix Preferences pane-switch Hang Risk via MASPreferences post_install patch (upstream PR #1379, 2a7f56d) Open

dependencies performance

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

schuyler/macdown3000#524 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Import deprecated AppKit/Foundation/UTType API cleanup from upstream PR #1379 (7dfae7f) Open

enhancement infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

schuyler/macdown3000#523 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Callout Rendering Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

schuyler/macdown3000#522 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Horizontal Rule Display Format Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#521 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Add nullability annotations across Objective-C headers before the Swift port Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

schuyler/macdown3000#511 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
viz.js is a 3.75 MB unversioned blob — replace with a versioned Graphviz build Open

dependencies rendering

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#510 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
MathJax 2.7.3 is EOL with a split-brain CDN/local setup — upgrade to MathJax 3/4 with the WKWebView migration Open

dependencies rendering

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

schuyler/macdown3000#509 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Migrate CocoaPods → Swift Package Manager (target: Swift port Phase 1) Open

dependencies infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

schuyler/macdown3000#508 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Vendor the patched podspecs from MacDownApp/cocoapods-specs into this repo Open

dependencies

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

schuyler/macdown3000#507 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Decide and document the App Sandbox stance before the WKWebView migration Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

schuyler/macdown3000#506 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Golden corpus hardening: baseline status annotations and parser-contract coverage Open

infrastructure testing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

schuyler/macdown3000#505 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Internal anchor links are not clickable in exported PDF (inherited from upstream MacDown) Open

bug rc-pending

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

schuyler/macdown3000#504 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Heading anchor slugs diverge from GitHub's algorithm (Unicode punctuation kept, ASCII-only lowercase, hyphen collapsing) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

schuyler/macdown3000#503 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Insert Table toolbar icon is indistinguishable from Unordered List icon Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#497 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 1, 2026
Prompt user to set MacDown 3000 as default Markdown editor Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#495 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Bundled CSS themes don't style all Markdown elements (task lists, highlight, strikethrough) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

schuyler/macdown3000#491 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Allow a separate stylesheet for PDF/HTML export vs. the on-screen preview Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

schuyler/macdown3000#490 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Add an "Insert Page Break" command for PDF/print export Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#489 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Make Format menu and toolbar command ordering consistent/logical Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#488 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Show Markdown syntax hints in the Format menu (cheat-sheet) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

schuyler/macdown3000#487 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Add "Insert Table" to the Format menu Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

schuyler/macdown3000#486 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Document CSS-theme and PDF-export customization (built-in help) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

schuyler/macdown3000#485 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Add a fenced code block insertion command (Format menu + toolbar) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

schuyler/macdown3000#484 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Display-dependent tests silently pass on headless CI — convert early-return guards to XCTSkip Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

schuyler/macdown3000#476 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Switch from GBCli to Swift ArgumentParser Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

schuyler/macdown3000#475 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Follow-ups from PR #430: heading slug anchor IDs (polish, edge-case tests, dedup decisions) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

schuyler/macdown3000#471 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Editor and Preview trying to sync when disabled Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

schuyler/macdown3000#441 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2026

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