I built a Markdown editor under 10MB because Obsidian felt too heavy

I love writing in Markdown. What I don't love is opening a 200MB+ Electron app just to jot down a note. So I built Markify - a desktop Markdown editor that weighs in at under 10MB and still ships a real feature set. Why bother Obsidian is great, but it's heavy, and most of what I actually need day-to-day is simpler: open a file, write, preview, export, done. Every "lightweight" alternative I tried either wasn't actually light, or was missing basics like PDF export or a proper file explorer. So I built the tool I wanted. What's in it Open & save .md , .markdown , .mdx files with native dialogs Sidebar file explorer - browse a whole folder, expand subfolders on demand, just like VS Code Three view modes : Read, Edit, and Hybrid (live side-by-side preview) PDF export with embedded images and proper Unicode font handling Light/dark theme that follows your system in real time 4 languages out of the box: English, French, German, Spanish Native title bar per platform (real traffic lights on macOS, custom controls on Windows/Linux) The stack Angular 22 (with Signals) on the frontend, Rust on the backend, glued together with Tauri 2 . That combo is exactly why the app stays small - no bundled Chromium, no Node runtime shipped, just the OS's native webview. 82 unit tests (Vitest) keep the core services honest. Everything is open source, AGPL-3.0: github.com/Martzcode/Markify Markdown is basically AI's native language now Here's the other reason this project felt worth building right now: every LLM defaults to Markdown. Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot for anything structured and you get headers, bullet lists, code fences, bold text - Markdown, every time. It's become the de facto output format for AI because it's plain text, unambiguous to parse, and renders cleanly almost everywhere. That shift changes what a Markdown editor needs to be good at: Copy-pasting AI output should just work - no reformatting, no broken tables, no mangled code blocks Code block rendering with copy b