Guides to reading Markdown on a Mac
These guides answer the first questions people have about a .md file on a Mac. How do you open it? How do you read it formatted? What about wide tables, and printing? Each guide names the free options as well as Pagewide.
- How to open and read .md files on a MacA Mac opens .md files as plain text. Here's how to read them formatted, with headings, lists and tables, using free and paid apps.
- Wide Markdown tables: why they scroll sideways, and how to read them wholeWhy Markdown tables run off the side of the window, how to write tables that fit, and how to read wide ones whole on a Mac.
- How to change the default app for .md files on a MacMake every .md file open in the Markdown app you choose, in four steps in Finder. Also covers .markdown files, single files, and undoing it.
- How to read a whole folder of Markdown files on a MacDocs, notes and AI-written plans come as folders of .md files. How to browse a whole folder in one window, with tabs, split view and linked files.
- How to print Markdown or save it as a PDF on a MacTurn a Markdown file into a clean PDF on a Mac with the built-in Save as PDF, from a viewer or editor. Also covers pandoc and what prints well.
- Markdown file extensions: .md, .markdown, .rmd, .qmd and the restEvery common Markdown file extension, what each one means, and which apps open them: .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd, R Markdown, Quarto and MDX.
- Guides to reading Markdown on a MacGuides to opening, reading, printing and choosing apps for Markdown files on a Mac, from the maker of Pagewide, a native Markdown viewer.
Using Pagewide already? The help pages cover themes, Smart References, split view and every shortcut.