MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
Suggestion: Browse mode (open folder)
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Description
**Use case:** Writing/testing the doc of a Git project.
**Browse mode:**
- View: navigation sidebar | code | preview
- Behavior: preview (single file) or code (multiple files)
**Features:**
- Open a folder (i.e. `docs/`) ⇒ activates the Browse mode
- Sidebar shows the folder structure with the files
- Toggle view all files / .md only
- Toggle single-file / each file in a separate tab
- Clicking a link to a local file in a page opens that file in MacDown
- Preview also images
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Somewhat similar to #1336
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by comparing this proposal with related issue #1336 and break the browse-mode request into separately testable behaviors. No files or tests are named; done would require agreeing on scope and verifying folder navigation, file filtering, tabs, local links, and image previews in the macOS app.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, markdown
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100