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I run a content website for a living and I do everything in Markdown inside Sublime Text. It works really well, especially if you already use Sublime a lot.

I made a few color scheme changes to increase line height, limit line width, and improve header contrast. The MarkdownEditing plugin is also nice if you use special features like footnotes.

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How do you actually render / style the Markdown documents, site?

I was thinking to lean into something similar with VS Code - the hypothesis being that VSC is widely used, open source, and a powerful text editor.

Have you / others come across similar plugins? I’d be OK with editing markdown files - would love using a GUI editor. I’m not a fan of writing in markdown with a separate rendered window to the side. Would rather it “feel” like a simple MS Word / Google Docs authoring experience.

Look for the more writing oriented editors like Ulysses. This might be closer to what you want.

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