If you do any kind of software development or use any open source software the chances are that you have come across Markdown files, typically something like README.md. If you're on OS X, there is no easy way to view these out of the box. This is where qlmarkdown comes to the rescue. It's a QuickLook addon that renders the Markdown formatted files directly in the quick look window.

This is what the output of qlmarkdown looks like (pressing the space bar on a Markdown file in Finder):

This addon registers itself to respond to the following file extensions:

• multimarkdown
• markdown
• mdown
• md
• mdml
• text
• mdwn
• mkd
• mmd

Installation is really easy, simply download the zip file from https://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown/releases/tag/v1.3.1, then using the Terminal, run the following from the Downloads directory:


If you prefer to install just for yourself, change the second line to:


You can find more details here: https://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown/blob/v1.3.1/Readme.markdown.

-i