Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash

[hk__2]

> Glow works with the Charm Cloud to allow you to store any markdown files in your own private collection.

Why would I want to store my files on someone else’s computer rather than in a git repo on mine?

[vhanda]

Since you're already storing your notes in Git, I think GitJournal [0] might be useful for you. It's an open source mobile first markdown based notes app integrated with Git. (I'm the author)

[0] https://GitJournal.io

[bdcravens]

Probably the same reasons you may prefer Google Drive over Microsoft Office.

That said, I would definitely prefer pointing Glow to any standard git repo. This gives it all the security Charm is claiming to offer, versioning, etc, essentially for free. (Obviously that defeats the purpose of Glow being a marketing tool for Charm)

[jws]

- You might switch between several computers throughout the day.

- You might believe the cloud folks do better backups than you.

[phenax]

I agree. The whole "encyrpted stash" and "cloud" thing is totally unnecessary. It is an amazing tool without all that noise.

[buf]

I prefer to do this directly in vim with Goyo: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

[stiff]

Vim can't highlight Markdown correctly because it does highlighting via regexps. For correct parsing and thus for correct highlighting of Markdown you need a real parser. See e.g. this:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/issues/4

[Jestar342]

Yup, same. Excellent plugin.

[leephillips]

If you have Pandoc installed, you can get just the rendering/reading with something like

      pandoc -i file.md | w3m -T text/html

[RMPR]

And couple it with entr to emulate live preview

[carterschonwald]

pandoc is great :)

[lou1306]

Somewhat related: there is a Pandoc "writer" on GitHub that pretty prints most formats supported by Pandoc (including Markdown, of course).

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer

I contributed some changes back in 2019. The writer is written in Lua and the lead maintainer seems happy to welcome PRs.

[kps]

Thanks for pointing that out. (I've been using `pandoc -t html | elinks -dump -stdin` in my ~/.lessfilter)

[dangoljames]

I've done something similar but as a python flask app that uses a web browser as a reading/writing platform, that keeps it's (unencrypted) stash in a local directory (it's a 'localhost only' webservice).

It's functional but crude so nothing on github just yet ;)

[charles_f]

Hehe, since we're on the topic of shameless plugs, I have one in typescript - it's ready and I'm using it extensively. Serves locally as you described by using --serve

https://www.npmjs.com/package/plaf

[camgunz]

The Charm project looks awesome, almost get a feel for “post web apps” there. Interesting.

[koheripbal]

On windows I use Typora. Since I use markdown lists as a journal and project notes, I'm usually doing it on windows.

[zepto]

Very nice tool. One issue is that the color scheme doesn’t work well with a white background, or a monochrome display.

[mueslix]

One of the authors here: it should actually automatically detect your background color and adjust its theme to it. Alternatively you can pick a different style with `-s`, or even write your own one!

[lbj]

Absolutely love this, very well done!

[ashton314]

This is way fancier than my project, which renders markdown (or anything pandoc can read) as a man page:

https://github.com/ashton314/marked-man

[JdeBP]

Note that you can actually get colour and proper italics and boldface out of groff (specifically grotty). They are actually in there in the vanilla tool, but are disabled by overrides on several operating systems.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html

[teilo]

Love this. Instant install.

[phenax]

I love using glow as a markdown previewer for my file manager lf. But what the hell is up with everything else they are trying to do. Just be a good markdown viewer!

[minerjoe]

Looks great! Love CLI/TUI.

That said, can someone please post a summary of what charm.sh is about? I don't use javascript and nothing comes up on the page.

[0xdeadb00f]

In disabled JavaScript and I can read the page fine.

[colesantiago]

turn on javascript?

[dpedu]

This is cool, but I want to run my own server.

[eeZah7Ux]

A text file in git or syncthing does the same.

[cocktailpeanuts]

I want this as an editor, with VIM support :)

[hackerm0nkey]

I've installed it and I felt the same as what you mentioned :)

Then I saw Goyo Vim plugin

[suprfnk]

What does this do that Vim doesn't, for you?

[johnghanks]

why