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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister, and welcome to another
ScreenCastsOnline weekly tip video.
In last week's full ScreenCastsOnline tutorial,
I covered a brilliant writing app called Bear.
Bear supports Markdown, allowing you to add
styling attributes to plain text files.
One feature I didn't cover was the integration
of Bear with Marked.
Marked is a separate application that, once installed,
works with virtually any Markdown editor
and allows you to see your Markdown files fully rendered
in real time.
This is just one of the example notes that are provided
with Bear, and what I'm going to do is to preview this
in Marked, and, to do that, I just go to View,
and then there's an option here, Preview in Marked.
The first time that you run Marked,
you can go through a quick setup.
Marked is great for either working with prose
or working with code.
I'm gonna stick with prose.
I don't need equations, so I'm gonna say no to that,
and that's all looking good, so we'll say
not show this window in the future, and we'll close.
This is my Marked window showing the note in Bear
perfectly rendered over here, and also this is being updated
in real time as well, so, if I click the word beautiful,
you'll see I've got beautiful here,
and let's delete it from my Bear note,
and we'll carry on working, and there we go.
We get this little red indicator here showing me that
something has changed on that line.
I can put that back in
and again start working, and that will appear automatically
over in the Marked window.
You can also use Marked for Ulysses, if I close this down.
I'll close the Marked window down.
Let's open Ulysses.
This is a standard Ulysses document.
It's a plain text document, but it has Markdown
formatting in it, so you can see that's a heading,
we've got some bold, we've got a link,
we've got an image, et cetera.
There is no menu option to preview this in Marked,
but the way you can do it is to do a quick export.
Select text, select text bundle, and now it will
probably show you Preview here, but, if you press Tab,
eventually you will see Open in Marked.
If it doesn't say Open in Marked, click on this little icon
here and select Marked from this list,
and it will remember that you want to open it in Marked
and there we go.
There is my preview.
I've got my heading, my bold attributes, my link,
and even the image as well all perfectly rendered.
The only difference with this is that you do have to,
if you make a change.
I'll just put in a new line.
You do have to do a new export again.
Again, if we do a quick export, but it's remembered
the settings so just open in Marked,
which you see that change appear here.
Marked 2 is available with a free trial or purchase
direct from the developer via the Mac App Store
or is included as part of the set app subscription bundle,
and all the things can be found over on the show page
at ScreenCastsOnline.com.