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 ...

Here at MacStories, we like to write in Markdown. We appreciate the portability of plain text and how it enables us to try different text editors for iOS and macOS. Markdown and plain text are also ...

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 ...