Everything you write.

Markdown is best for notes. LaTeX is best for documents. Deft is both.

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A Markdown note open in Deft: headings, bold and italic text, wiki links, a task list and a highlight, all rendered as you write them.

Notes.

Markdown notes that render as you write them, link to each other with [[wiki links]], and save as files any other app can open. No export step, no proprietary wrapper around your own writing.

A LaTeX paper open in Deft: the source rendered live, with the cursor inside one equation showing its markup while the next stays typeset.

Documents.

LaTeX with no compromises. Your own preamble, your own packages, and a real PDF at the end of it, compiled by Tectonic bundled inside Deft or by the TeX installation you already have.

Yours to keep.

Your notes are Markdown and your papers are LaTeX. Both are plain text in a folder you picked, on a disk you own, readable by anything, now or long after you have stopped using Deft.

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