Show HN: mdfocus – A distraction free Markdown reader for your localhost
timz Sunday, December 28, 2025
LLMs generate a lot of Markdown—Claude exports, ChatGPT conversation dumps, research notes, wiki-style docs.
I found myself constantly opening these in VS Code or converting them just to read comfortably.
So I built mdfocus: a zero-config local reader that you point at any folder and start reading instantly (npx mdfocus ~/notes).
It's not a static site generator or a publishing tool—just a clean, focused way to consume Markdown locally.
Includes live-reload, auto-generated table of contents, Mermaid diagrams, dark and other modes, and reading status tracking with color tags.
MIT licensed.
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The article discusses the development of mdfocus, an open-source tool that helps users focus on specific areas of Markdown documents by highlighting and navigating through headings, code blocks, and other elements. The tool aims to improve the reading and editing experience for Markdown files.
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