Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones. In a blog post announcing the feature, Google says it’s ...

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.

A few months ago, I made the agonizing decision to leave my job of eleven years with my local school district, where I worked with preschoolers with special needs. Several factors played into my ...

More Markdown features are coming to Notepad.

Our digital workflow requires taking notes, writing documentation, and creating content at a rapid pace. While you are ...

With the release of iOS 26, Apple has introduced a highly practical feature to its Notes app: the ability to export notes directly in Markdown format. This addition is particularly beneficial for web ...

Now if only we could get real Markdown support in Jira/Confluence. I know there's support there, but you have to go through some poorly designed wizards every time you want to bring MD in. I've found ...

Inspired in part by setext, the lightweight markup language designed for TidBITS in 1992, John Gruber’s Markdown revolutionized the way people write for the Web a dozen years later. Writers were freed ...

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 ...

Writing is a difficult enough process, and once you add in the need for formatting it becomes doubly difficult. As I said in a previous post (see Software I use: TextMate) I like plain text editors as ...