Live monitoring

Watch a file

mdv --monitor notes.md

Edit and save notes.md in another pane. mdv refreshes the rendered document when the source file changes.

Keep your reading style

Combine monitoring with your usual rendering options:

mdv --monitor --theme catppuccin --cols 100 notes.md
mdv --monitor --preset reader notes.md

The same theme and layout settings apply when the document is rendered again.

Work with an editor

Use a terminal split to keep the editor and rendered output visible together. To open the source directly from an interactive reading view, see Pager and editor.

Monitoring is a file workflow. For Markdown produced by another command, use the standard-input workflow.