When comparing ReText vs Notable, the Slant community recommends Notable for most people. In the question“What are the best open source Markdown editors for UNIX-like systems?” Notable is ranked 24th while ReText is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Notable is:
Simple tagging support is easy to use, and allows quick searching through multiple documents.
Specs
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Pros
Pro MathJax support
MathJax is a display engine that helps render mathematics properly.
Pro Preview incldues syntax highlighting
The syntax is highlighted in the Preview pane. The programming language in use is guessed. The code block has to be indented 4 spaces (or a tab) for the syntax highlighting to work.
Pro Package available for Fedora
Easy installation and auto-updates.
Pro Can export to Google Docs
Pro Organize projects with tags
Simple tagging support is easy to use, and allows quick searching through multiple documents.
Pro Simple, clean interface
With a clean UI that lacks clutter, you can get right to work without a bunch of distractions.
Pro Supports markdown
Uses GIt-flavored Markdown, which is a popular and easy to use WYSIWYM format.
Cons
Con Lacks synchronized scrolling
The editing and preview panes don't scroll together. They have to be manually adjusted to align.