Quindin
Syntax Highlighting
Markdown elements are styled with distinct colors and sizes for easy scanning:
- Headings — sized by level (H1 largest through H6 smallest) with accent coloring
- Bold and italic — rendered in their respective styles
- Inline code — monospace with a distinct background
- Code blocks — full-width with language-aware formatting
- Blockquotes — indented with distinct styling
- Lists and checklists — with proper indentation
- Tables — with column alignment
- Links — colored to stand out from body text
Formatting Shortcuts
Quindin provides keyboard shortcuts for common Markdown formatting:
- Cmd B — Toggle bold (
**text**) - Cmd I — Toggle italic (
_text_) - Cmd K — Toggle
inline code(`text`)
Select text and press the shortcut to wrap it, or press with no selection to insert the markers at the cursor. Lists auto-continue when you press Enter — start a line with - or 1. and the next line will continue the pattern.
Outline Panel
The Outline panel shows every heading in your document as a nested hierarchy based on heading level (h1 through h6). Click any heading to scroll directly to it in the editor.
Toggle the outline with Cmd 8. You can also click the outline button in the breadcrumb bar (the list icon on the left).
The outline panel is resizable — drag its right edge to make it wider or narrower (range: 120–350px). Its visibility and width are remembered per file, so each document keeps its own layout.
Breadcrumb Navigation
For Markdown files, the breadcrumb bar shows the heading path to your cursor position — for example, Getting Started > Installation > macOS. Long heading text is truncated to 30 characters.
Click any element in the breadcrumb to see its sibling headings at that level. Click a sibling to jump to it in the editor.
Word Count and Reading Time
The status bar at the bottom shows your cursor position (Ln 42, Col 15) and the total word count. If you select text, it also shows the selection size and word count of the selection.
Toggle the status bar with Cmd 6.
The Inspector panel (Cmd 2) shows additional document statistics for Markdown files:
- Lines — total line count
- Words — total word count
- Characters — total character count
- Headings — number of headings in the document
- Reading Time — estimated minutes (based on 200 words per minute)
- Encoding — UTF-8
If the file is saved to disk, the inspector also shows the filename, type, file size, creation date, and modification date.
Editor Features
All standard editor features work with Markdown: line numbers (Cmd 4), find and replace (Cmd F), soft wrap (Cmd 7), and adjustable font size (Cmd +/Cmd -). The default font size is 13pt (range 9–40pt).