Many of my recent posts have focused on how I’ve increasingly turned to Markdown for my writing, syllabus design, project and class websites, and for teaching literate programming. For those ...

VS Code is no longer just an IDE.

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 ...

Five plugins that keep your Obsidian notes clean without the manual work.

At its core, Markdown is a super simple way to add formatting like headers, bold, bulleted lists, and so on to plain text. It was originally designed to be an easy alternative to HTML, and allows ...

Windows / Mac: I confess, I’m not as well-versed in Markdown as I should be, but the awesome, free note-taking app Notable makes me want to learn its intricacies. The app, available for both Windows ...

Apple Notes on iPadOS 26 is now even more powerful, thanks to the addition of transcripts of call recordings, exporting as a markdown file, and the new menubar. Apple's Notes app has been an ...

Have you ever felt trapped by your own tools, like your notes are stuck in one app, holding your workflow hostage? If you’ve ever tried moving your carefully crafted ideas from Apple Notes to Notion, ...

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 ...

I know, I went and used "wiki" and "Markdown" in the headline and scared off all of the non-nerds. Nerds, welcome. If you're a non-nerd who kept reading, well, keep reading. Markdown is an easy way to ...