Minimalism is great, but a couple things have been overlooked.

On the whole, I am happy with this application and would recommend it. However, there are some deficiencies I would love to see addressed in the next version.

I am not trying to turn a minimalist editor for Markdown into a programmers tool. These are simple things that would make the app more useable (I find myself having to copy the content into another app to perform fairly basic operations).

I dont think theres any excuse to omit the standard ⌘] and ⌘[ key combos for promoting or demote blocks. This should work for all lists and on paragraphs should result in promotion/demotion with blockquote.

Search and Replace need a couple improvements: in selection, wrap-around, from insertion point. Id like to see regex, but I doubt that the developers will want to implement that.

Id like to see an export to Textile.

Fergus Gibson about Byword, v1.3.1