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 ...

Notepad now allows you to write Markdown without installing anything extra. Use toolbar shortcuts to apply formatting, switch views, and clear formatting when needed. The new Notepad lets you write ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Google has expanded support for Markdown in Google Docs, Slides, and ...

Byword is my text editor of choice on the iPhone, and the one I recommend to anyone who’s not willing to play with Editorial and its advanced automation features on the iPad. While not as customizable ...

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 ...

I suppose you already know what Markdown* is. For those who don’t know, let’s quote a few paragraphs from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball: Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

It’s no secret, I love Markdown. But when it comes to collaborating with someone, Google Docs, Quip, Pages on iCloud.com and Word on Office.com are all rich-text editors. Meet Canvas, a real-time ...

R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R code, and the results of R code in a single document. And when that document is rendered as HTML, you ...

This should put a smile on the coders out there. Posterous, the blogging platform, has just announced markdown and syntax highlighting support. This means greater control over styling but also allows ...