I personally use fswatch for this. The invocation is probably something like this: fswatch -0 ***.md | xargs -0 make I invoke a variant of this from my Ma

I personally use fswatch for this. The invocation is probably something like this: fswatch -0 ***.md | xargs -0 make I invoke a variant of this from my Makefile with a phony watch target. I think the main change is that I also echo a bell character, to provide some feedback. Fun tip: Preview will automatically reload PDFs on disk, though with some limitations that I workaround by waiting for the bell.