In my last two postings, I introduced a way to create slide presentations by writing them in a simple text file, with Markdown formatting, and add some of the “infinite canvas” features of Impress.js.

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 ...

You know that fun thing when you go to a presentation or talk of some kind and it starts fifteen minutes late because no one can get the projector to work? It’s even better when it’s some famous ...

Obsidian, a service that allows users to create notes in Markdown format, has announced that it will open source the Obsidian Canvas file format used by the service as the 'JSON Canvas' file format.

Polyglot Notebooks allow users to enrich code with documentation (in Markdown format), output the results and visualize them. The code blocks can be executed individually directly from the notebook ...

Microsoft is distributing new preview versions of the rudimentary text editor Notepad in the Insider channels. It now learns advanced text formatting and also allows Markdown-style input. This makes ...

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 ...

Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation.