MiaoYan

Lightweight, local-first Markdown note-taking app for macOS with wikilinks, LaTeX, and Mermaid support.

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MiaoYan is a lightweight, local-first Markdown note-taking app for macOS, built natively in Swift with no built-in data collection. It offers split editor/preview, wikilink backlinks, LaTeX and Mermaid rendering, and a minimalist dark-mode interface, syncing across devices through whichever cloud-drive folder the user chooses; it's available free via Homebrew/GitHub or as a paid Mac App Store listing.

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