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 ...

Markdown is a “lightweight markup language for applying formatting using plain text.” Google Docs already recognizes some Markdown syntax, and is now expanding its support. In addition to * or – for ...

After a brief stint with TextMate 2, I recently started playing around with Sublime Text 2 for writing, and I thought I’d share the links and tips I’ve collected so far. I use Sublime Text 2 for both ...

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in plaintext, and the Word was in plaintext because plaintext was the Way. It was good. On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born.

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 ...

VSCodium has become the go-to Markdown editor for many, offering a free, open-source, and feature-rich alternative to other ...

Windows' Notepad used to be my go-to for pretty much anything that needed typing. But since I’ve been working more with Markdown, it started to feel like Notepad isn’t built for the job. It only ...