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One thing I really wish some of these editors had were an IDE-like sidebar.

Whenever I'm editing markdown files, it's usually in a folder of notes, or blog posts, or writing of some kind. And it'd be nice to be able to cycle through several open files like you would in VS Code.

I tried writing my own but -- I just didn't have time and got bored of it.

Have you heard of editors that are specific for markdown and have this feature?

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You should check out Mark Text (which is the main topic of this thread) - Mark Text can open folders and it looks very similar to VSCode. In the settings you can even say "open this folder by default, if I open Mark Text"... this looks like it would make quiet a nice and easy note taking solution.

> Whenever I'm editing markdown files, it's usually in a folder of notes, or blog posts, or writing of some kind. And it'd be nice to be able to cycle through several open files like you would in VS Code.

You pretty much describe how I'm using MarkText all the time. On the left, you have a file panel (or search or navigation inside your file) which you can hide/ show with a keystroke. On the top, you have several tabs for your open files. And yes, you can set a default folder.

Code supports markdown files natively:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/markdown

I use this extension which I like a lot:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.m...

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