Hey everybody, I just pushed the button on my newest MacSparky Field Guide. Markdown I co-wrote this book with Eddie Smith and I’m really proud of it. Markdown started as a clever way to write for the web but has become so much more.…
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MultiMarkdown Composer 2
I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Fletcher Penny, the renaissance physician behind MultiMarkdown. Fletcher just released version 2 of his successful MultiMarkdown Compser App for Mac. This is a substantial improvement over version 1 with upgrades to the underlying engine and most…
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Recently, I’ve switched my billing workflow in the day job over to markdown. As a result of the way I’m jumping between platforms, I’m not always getting proper markdown line breaks. (to force a <br> code in markdown, you need to insert three spaces…
Continue reading →Data Liberation, MultiMarkdown, and OPML
Fletcher Penney has been hard at work on MultiMarkdown 3.0. Perhaps one of the most inspired new features is the ability to work with OPML files. (Don’t know what OPML is? Read this.) Fletcher let me in on the secret early and it is…
Continue reading →TextExpander Markdown Snippets and Beyond
Brett is getting it together. His markdown snippets are more elegant than mine, which feel like the coding equivalent of Soviet-era public housing. Either way, I’m going to start pestering Brett to help out with this project and if you are a TextExpander/Markdown junkie,…
Continue reading →The Markdown Snowball
There is suddenly influx of Markdown and MultiMarkdown friendly apps on the iPad. While Markdown has provided an easy way to write for the web for years, the arrival of iOS devices and the need for portable text documents with retained formatting creates a…
Continue reading →MarkdownMail 2.0
After all my gushing this week about Markdown, it is worth noting the best Markdown iOS application, MarkdownMail, got a big update this week that includes a native iPad version.
Continue reading →Using TextExpander for Markdown Reference Links
Patrick Rhone (from MinimalMac) did his first screencast this week about creating a Text Expander snippet for Markdown links. Like Patrick, I write everything in Markdown (although I use the MultiMarkdown variant), which lets me export to nearly any format and write on the…
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