Yes, it’s been mentioned a number of times. It hasn’t changed. I think the developers are more focused on other things, which is their right. If you are interested in a standalone WYSIWYG markdown editor, check out reddit’s markdown and macapps sections.
So if Lettera’s mission statement is to be a standalone Markdown file editor, its New File behaviour should be considered very broken.
In the macOS document model (whether you use autosave or manual save), New File should always create a new Untitled file with an undetermined location until that file is closed / saved. Every well behaved Mac app that considers itself a document editor uses this model: TextEdit, Pixelmator, Pages, even Panda.
But Lettera does NOT do this. It instead creates a n…
Hi! I have been using Lettera quite intensively during the last month, and really love it! So much, in fact, that I have migrated all my notes out of Bear to a fully on-disk files approach. And it is great in the age of AI agents, since they work seamlessly with this approach.
My main concerns:
New-File Behaviour: When no docs are open and you open Lettera, it always insists on re-opening the Lettera iCloud container. This is quite an annoying behavior and very much against the main reason fo…
This template is for bug report only:
Lettera Version: 4266
macOS Version: 26.1
What were you doing: Clicked on the Lettera icon in the taskbar
What feature did you use:
What happened: The lettera browser window popped up showing “Lettera (iCloud)”
What did you expect to happen: Nothing to pop up, because I didn’t have any document open
My use case is that I am editing small AI markdown files from Finder. I never ever want to see the Letter browser. I use Finder for that type of thing. So …
Agreed, and a super frustrating bug. Every time I open a .md document, a window with the Lettera iCloud folder opens up on top of the document I’m actually trying to look at.
This template is for bug report only:
Lettera Version: 4091
macOS Version:26.5.1
What were you doing: Lettera not running. Then in Finder, selected a file, right clicked, open with Lettera.app
What feature did you use: I wanted to edit a markdown file
What happened: Lettera opened two windows: 1. the file I wanted to edit, 2. a window with a file browser showing iCloud and.
What did you expect to happen: I just wanted the first window. I didn’t want the second window with the file browser.
T…