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 ...

5 Benefits of Using a Markdown Text Editor in Apple’s Ecosystem Your email has been sent Markdown-compatible apps are writing-focused programs offering simplified interfaces that support Markdown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Byword offers two simple themes. Within its no-frills window, Byword offers only two themes: a light one (black on a light-gray background) and a dark one (light gray on a black background). You can ...

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 ...

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 ...