A few years ago, I had what seemed like a clever idea: What if there was a text editing program with less clutter than Microsoft Word and more focus on writing for the web? I quickly discovered that ...

In our attention-addled times, it's critical to improve our creative focus. Typora blends the feel of a minimalist notepad with the power of Markdown. It strips away the usual clutter you see in ...

Documentation tools mdBook, Quartz, MkDoc, and HonKit all support Markdown and work with a variety of other languages and formats. Here's a quick guide to each tool's standout features and best uses.

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 ...

Markdown writers and iPad users, rejoice: a new app just came out in the App Store and it’s quite possibly the best choice you have to write using John Gruber’s popular text format on the iPad. I used ...