Linux native

Markdown Reader

A markdown reader that watches the file. Edit anywhere — vim, markdown-editor, VS Code — and the render updates the moment you save. Two typography knobs make the output look like your document.

Download AppImage .deb for Ubuntu / Debian

v0.1.1 · Linux x86_64 · Free & open source

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Sourdough timing

The plan

Mix at 8am, fold every 30 min until 11am, shape, cold retard overnight. Bake at 9am the next day. Adjusts in summer — start later, cut the bulk by an hour.

What to remember

Levain at 1:5:5, ready when it doubles
Dough temp target: 25°C — adjust water
Score with the blade flat, not vertical

Features

Just a reader. A focused one.

Live watch

Saves anywhere, renders here

The reader subscribes to the file. Save in any editor and the render updates — no reload, no refresh, no manual sync.

Two knobs

Heading and body

A curated list of eight serif / sans / mono families and a number for the size. That's it. No CSS panel, no theme picker, no line-height slider.

Curated set

Eight fonts, no more

Charter, Inter, JetBrains Mono, Georgia, Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial, system-ui. Headings and body share the same list.

GFM

CommonMark + tables

Standard markdown with GitHub-flavoured tables, fenced code, task lists. No proprietary syntax, no plugin surface.

Quiet chrome

Calm UI, your document

The krill palette frames the window; the document inside follows whatever typography you picked. The frame is ours, the page is yours.

Tauri · Rust

Native Linux

Small binary, real file associations, no Electron. Opens .md from the file manager like a native app.

Krill principles

A simple interface.

Focus One app, one job. One file, one window. No tabs, no project trees, no mode pickers — the work in front of you is the work.

Beauty A locked palette, careful typography, chrome that sits still. The apps shouldn't be the part of your desktop you have to forgive.

Simplicity No settings panel, no plugin system, no power-user knobs. If a feature can't be explained in a sentence, it doesn't ship.

Ownership Your files on your disk in their original format. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. MIT licensed; build it yourself if you don't trust ours.

Install

Quick install

One-liner — downloads the AppImage to ~/.local/bin, marks it executable, and registers a launcher entry. Re-run to upgrade.

curl -fsSL https://krill-software.github.io/install.sh | bash -s markdown-reader

or download a package

Download .deb

# install with apt
sudo apt install ./Markdown.Reader_0.1.1_amd64.deb

# or with dpkg
sudo dpkg -i Markdown.Reader_0.1.1_amd64.deb

Download AppImage

# make executable & run
chmod +x Markdown.Reader_0.1.1_amd64.AppImage
./Markdown.Reader_0.1.1_amd64.AppImage

Build from source

Build it yourself

Clone, install dependencies, and build with Tauri. Needs Node (with pnpm) and a Rust toolchain.

# clone
git clone https://github.com/krill-software/markdown-reader.git
cd markdown-reader

# build
pnpm install
pnpm tauri build