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Reading and Navigating
Markappoly opens in preview by default, so a file arrives already formatted: headings, tables, task lists, code with syntax colors, links, images, and quotes.
The theme menu in the top bar switches between System, Light, and Dark. System follows whatever your operating system is set to and changes along with it. Your choice is remembered between sessions.
Use the minus, percentage, and plus controls in the top bar, or press ⌘- , ⌘+ , and ⌘0 to zoom out, in, and back to actual size. The percentage button resets to 100%. The zoom level sticks until you change it again.
The sidebar lists the document's headings as an outline. Click any heading to jump straight to it. Hide or show the sidebar with the ☰ button or ⌘\ when you want more room to read.
Press ⌘F to search the open file. Matches are highlighted as you type so you can step through them.
Once you have opened a folder (⌘⇧O), a search box appears at the top of the sidebar. Type into it and Markappoly searches every Markdown file in that folder, listing each match with its file name, line number, and a snippet of the line. Click a result to open that file and jump to the line. This turns a folder of notes into something you can quickly look things up in.
Blockquotes that start with an alert marker render as coloured callouts, the same way they do on GitHub:
> [!NOTE]
> Useful information that deserves attention.
> [!TIP]
> A helpful suggestion.
The supported types are [!NOTE], [!TIP], [!IMPORTANT], [!WARNING], and [!CAUTION], each with its own colour and label.
The status bar along the bottom shows the word count and an estimated reading time, counted at about 200 words a minute.
If you edit a file in another program while it's open in Markappoly, the preview updates on its own within a second or two. This only happens when you have no unsaved edits of your own, so it never overwrites your work. You can also force a re-read with ⌘R.
Task list items render as real checkboxes. Tick one in the preview and Markappoly writes the change back into the source, flipping [ ] to [x]. That marks the document as edited, ready for you to save.
Press ⌘⇧P (or the ▶ button in the top bar) to turn the document into a slideshow. Markappoly splits it into slides on each thematic break, the --- lines you write between sections. Use the arrow keys, Page Up and Page Down, or click the left and right halves of the screen to move between slides. The counter at the bottom shows where you are. Press Escape to leave.