App: LinkEdit
Developer: Boris Yurkevich
Genres: Productivity

Personal knowledge manager (PKM). Point to any folder on your Mac and manage your markdown notes. Create auto-updating links which can go in both directions. 

• Built-in file manager and plain text editor
• Industry-leading privacy, zero tracking and third-party analytics
• Optional sync with iCloud Drive, OneDrive or any other cloud service  
• Markdown preview  
• Quick Open with a search
• Use the linkedit://open URL scheme to open individual notes from anywhere  
• Create Permanent Links between your notes [Pro] 
• Browse notes metadata, including backlinks with Links Inspector [Pro]
• No subscriptions, 1 purchase to unlock LinkEdit [Pro]

Features you can expect from any good Mac app

• Three-column navigation
• Multiple windows and tabs
• Inline notes renaming
• Drag and Drop
• Find and Replace
• macOS Spell Checking
• Automatic theme switching
• Low RAM usage  
• Small app size, less than 7 MB
• Built with SwiftUI and AppKit

Release notes:
Today we're shipping a significant update to LinkEdit with changes how metdata is managed. Metadata stores connections you make between your notes in a single JSON file.

New

• Metadata is moved to every project Default Folder, inside the ".linkedit" hidden directory to help with syncing
• New toolbar icons with better arrangement
• Toolbar now hides unavailable actions 
• Improved Default Folder switching experience
• Delete button is now always enabled in the main menu
• Default Folder folder is now always expanded by default
• Smaller default font sizes
• LinkEdit now persists note selection even when you change a selected folder
• Clicking on a linked note will now open it in a new window, with sidebars hidden
• In addition to Quick Link (Command+K), now you can link by typing "linkedit://open" followed by a note name [Pro] 
• Metadata will update itself if there's a new link found in a note [Pro]

Fixed

• Fixed "File → New Note" command. It now always adds new file to a selected folder
• Fixed the "linkedit://open" URL scheme when opening LinkEdit notes from external applications
• Notes sorting no longer depends on capitalisation which matches Finder behaviour
• Fixed issue with Quick Open incorrect state restoration
• Preventing metadata mutation if deleting or renaming notes fails
• More robust links and backlinks auto-updating during note renaming
• Fixed Links Inspector text alignment
• Fixed the notes sidebar showing old folder name when renaming a selected folder
• Fixed the editor problems after renaming a folder with selected note
• Fixed the metadata loss issue which happened when you have 2 notes with the same name and one of them linked. Then if you delete the other note you would lose a backlink from the first note
• Reduced Metadata file size by 50%