MD Flow: A Reader Built for the Folder Your AI Tools Keep Filling
Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor hand you Markdown files all day, and they pile up in a folder. Reading one properly usually means opening it raw in an IDE, installing a preview plugin, then doing the same thing again for the next folder. So the file gets written once, skimmed once, and never opened again.
MD Flow is a reader built for that exact folder, nothing more.
What MD Flow does
MD Flow connects to a folder you already have, the files stay exactly where they are, and you arrow through them rendered: callouts, YAML frontmatter shown as a proper header, Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, tables, and syntax-highlighted code. You can browse every subfolder in one place, search filenames or search inside document bodies, and reopen a document right where you left off. A document with a to: field in its frontmatter becomes an email draft, and any rendered document can be exported to PDF.
What's broken about the alternative
The usual fix for a folder of Markdown is to import it into a vault or a note app, which means committing to that tool's format and migrating everything in before you can read any of it comfortably. That's a real cost for files you didn't choose to accumulate in the first place, you just asked an AI tool a question and it happened to answer in Markdown.
MD Flow skips the import step entirely. There's no library to build and no proprietary format, just a folder you point it at, in plain Markdown you still own the whole time.
How it works
Folder-first, not vault-first: no import step, no migration, files stay in place in plain Markdown.
Renders what usually breaks on mobile too: Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, and callouts render on iPhone and iPad, not just Mac, and one purchase covers all three.
Something to read immediately: it ships with a folder of example documents already loaded, so there's something rendered on screen before you connect a folder of your own.
Local files only: no account, no upload, no sync service of its own.
"Reading a Markdown file should not take this much setup. You open one and it lands in an IDE as raw text, so you go and install a preview plugin. Then you want to read something in a different folder and that is another workspace to open. That is a lot of ceremony for reading. I wanted something that just opens a folder and shows me the documents, so I built it." — Founder
Who this is for
Founders, developers, and operators generating Markdown with AI tools daily who want to read it back without adopting a note-taking system to do it. It's a reader, not an editor or a second brain.
MD Flow is free to download and use as a reader. A one time $7.99 unlock adds unlimited folders, search inside document bodies, PDF export, and email drafts.
Try it
Get MD Flow — or see the MD Flow listing on ShipBoost for category context.
