# Introducing Marked Share

For years, [Marked](https://markedapp.com) has been my playground for turning Markdown into beautifully rendered documents on macOS. But while previewing Markdown on your local machine is great, sharing those documents with clients, editors, or friends has always felt a little fragmented. You export to PDF, print to HTML, or paste text into a generic pastebin that ruins your formatting.

I built **Marked Share** to solve that problem.

Marked Share is a Markdown-native publishing and sharing platform designed from the ground up to pair with Marked (and with any plain-text workflow). It gives your Markdown documents stable, shareable links, gorgeous typography, and collaborative annotation tools without the weight or complexity of a traditional CMS.

## The Idea Behind Marked Share

The core philosophy of Marked Share is simple:

- **Markdown First:** Your raw Markdown is preserved exactly as you wrote it. No hidden proprietary database locks, no mangled syntax.
- **Apex Rendering Engine:** Online documents are rendered with Apex, the same rendering pipeline powering Marked. If it looks great in Marked, it will look identical in your browser.
- **Clean, Short Links:** Your account, editor, and library live at `share.markedapp.com`, while published documents get clean, minimal share links on `markedb.in`.
- **Fast, Private, and Free:** No ads, no bloated trackers, no subscriptions. Documents are private by default until you decide to share them.

Whether you want to publish a quick public note, send a password-protected draft to a client, or publish a full blog with an Atom feed, Marked Share handles it with zero friction.

Over the next few posts, I'll walk through everything Marked Share can do—from collections and typography styles to interactive annotations, TextPack bundles, and our API.