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- Split view — two documents side-by-side
- PDF export with nested bookmarks
- CLI superpowers — workspace, stdin piping, headless export
- Git-diff overlay
- Verification layer
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Reading is free, forever. Pro adds 6 tools for the workflow that ships every day.
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- GFM, KaTeX math, Mermaid (basic), syntax highlight, footnotes, callouts, task lists, tables
- 4 themes (Light / Dark / Sepia / Black) with OS auto-detect
- Typography controls — Cozy / Normal / Spacious, serif/sans, Ctrl+= zoom
- Focus mode (Ctrl+D), Line numbers (Ctrl+Shift+L), Reading HUD
- Frontmatter card (Ctrl+Shift+M)
- Hover previews, image lightbox, copy code button
- Find in document (Ctrl+F)
- Open file: dialog, drag-drop, .md association, Recents
- Open folder as workspace + sidebar tree
- Quick Open (Ctrl+K)
- Back / forward history, scroll memory, live reload
- mdview file.md from CLI
- Print (Ctrl+P, OS-native), Save as HTML (single-file export)
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- Split view. Two documents side-by-side Ctrl+Alt+S
- PDF export with nested bookmarks. Real PDF, clickable headings in Acrobat / Edge Ctrl+Shift+E
- DOCX export. Real Word .docx via a native Rust OOXML emitter, no Pandoc. Opens cleanly in Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs, Pages. Ctrl+Shift+W
- CLI superpowers. mdview . workspace · git diff | mdview · single-instance reuse
- Git-diff overlay. Inline diff for any watched .md with uncommitted changes Ctrl+Shift+D
- Verification layer. Fabricated paths, risky shell, broken anchors, dense claims Ctrl+Shift+V
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