There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

Jason Heppler is a History PhD Candidate specializing in the history of the North American West and twentieth century US history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a permanent author at ...

In this post, we will show you how to use Markdown in Notepad on a Windows 11 PC. Microsoft has introduced lightweight formatting in Notepad, and it supports Markdown (*.md) files to work directly ...

This Chrome extension lets you compose emails in Markdown, and then convert it to HTML to use in Gmail. Gmail doesn’t offer you much in the way of formatting to make your emails look more attactive.

A few months ago, I made the agonizing decision to leave my job of eleven years with my local school district, where I worked with preschoolers with special needs. Several factors played into my ...

At its core, Markdown is a super simple way to add formatting like headers, bold, bulleted lists, and so on to plain text. It was originally designed to be an easy alternative to HTML, and allows ...

MultiMarkdown Composer 2 has just been released and is currently available for US$5. Long story short: if you like to write in Markdown, you should get this app. Markdown has been around for almost a ...

In January I wrote about using Macdown to write in Markdown, a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document—headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.—using ...

As someone who posts her work through a web interface, I've learned the hard way to write my stories offline. More than once, I've lost a post when a server or an Internet connection went bellyup.

Markdown is a Perl script that converts plain text into Web-ready HTML; it’s also a shorthand syntax for writing HTML tags without needing to write the actual HTML. Markdown has been around for a ...