![]() And unlike raw HTML, no more typing and then. No complex keypresses to remember like Control-I to start an emphasized word and then another Control-I to end it. No highlighting a word and choosing italic from a menu. Why the popularity of Markdown? Many of those who write or take copious notes have found Markdown such a stress-relieving and productive change from the formatting nightmares of word processing: You just type. (These are hybrids that use Markdown for formatting, but automatically render tags to look more like Word.) There are over 100 Markdown editors in the App Store, so I’m sure you’ll find one that fits your workflow. ![]() Markdown has proven itself in the note-taking space too with popular apps like Ulysses, Bear and Agenda. How big is it? Reddit and GitHub both use Markdown. Over the past 16 years, adoption of Markdown has been massive, since it makes web writing possible without knowing code and without having to overly think and apply formatting (like with Word). Blogging killed the analog newspaper and magazine, while laying the foundation for online reporting. You can embed a video, but it’s impractical to try to make a post into a video. You can embed a tweet in a post, but you can’t put a full post in a tweet. The strength is that web articles can embed all the other formats. ![]() Blogging grew up to became web news writing and, more than ever, is a vital piece of the content ecosystem. #BYWORD MEDIUM DRAFT HOW TO#This article shows you how to use Byword, an iOS, iPadOS and Mac OS text editor that was built for writing in Markdown, with a preview and instant publishing to most blogs and content management systems, like WordPress and Medium.Ĭontrary to what the so-called experts may say, blogging is not dead. Most web writers writer in Markdown, an HTML-tag shorthand that’s integrated into most content management systems. Writing specifically for the web is now an old discipline. ![]()
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