I’ve got a wiki that stores pages as txt files in Markdown, and I’ve got drafts of posts that I save locally in markdown. Menuetto is a wonderful environment for editing and composing. It’s great to see the markdown rendered as I type. It’s saving me a lot of back-and-forth saving files to the wiki & refreshing.However, it’s bizarre that Menuetto needs to save its files in its own format. One of the great things about Markdown is how it is plain text, and it should be able to save back to a plain text file. When I open a .txt file in Menuetto, it won’t let me save back to the original .txt. It must save as a .mntd file. If I want to save the edited file, I need to copy/paste out of Menuetto back into the wiki’s web interface or into the local file in *another editor*. Why?!Three stars for being a great editor; but not four or five if I *have* to use another editor to post to anything but Medium.

Looks very promising and useful out of the gate. Some bugs, it seems syntax highlighting arbitrarily turns off after 55 lines. Support for alternative styles would be great.

Menuetto has some nice default styles but is rough around the edges. From small things like not continuing a list on the next line after you hit Return, to larger issues like refusing to open files with a ".md" extension. I'll keep up with future changes but I can't switch to Menuetto as my default Markdown editor just yet.

Title says it all - this is truly inexploicable…