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 ...

Here at MacStories, we like to write in Markdown. We appreciate the portability of plain text and how it enables us to try different text editors for iOS and macOS. Markdown and plain text are also ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

Many technical writers either currently use or are interested in using Markdown to write their technical documentation. It’s a bit like Marmite – some people love it and other people kind of hate it.