MarkDown

another SmartAscii format

designed by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz

inconsistencies/issues: 2012-10-25-FutureOfMarkdown → CommonMark

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

• you have to put brackets around URI to get it to link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

• labelled-href looks ugly

sub-lists use 4 spaces for each level

Visual text-editor options to use instead of a vanilla browser text-area?

• goals
  • mode-less: or at least, editing a paragraph doesn't reload the whole page and make you go find the block....
    • some wikis have a model where every paragraph has an edit handle, and just that part of the page turns into a textarea......
    • auto-save: less necessary
    • render styles as you type (headers, bold): 3rd place
    • let people use the editor/IDE they're already familiar with - interesting different-frame....
• in-browser
  • SimpleMDE https://simplemde.com/ includes auto-save option
  • StackEdit provides very handy formatting buttons and shortcuts, thanks to PageDown, the WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor used by Stack Overflow. Even works offline. Lets you pick Markdown-flavor (CommonMark). Mermaid diagrams. https://stackedit.io/
  • PageDown https://github.com/StackExchange/pagedown - help
• stand-alone app, supporting some open server API - will it feel more modeless?
  • iA Writer supports micropub - anyone using it?
  • Ulysses supports Markdown and micro.blog (micropub?)

Stand-alone text editor apps (just file i/o, no API)

• GitJournal for android/ios (~$25 for Pro version which support backlinks)

Collaborative Writing

• Real-time Co-Editing
  • PeerPad https://peerpad.net/
  • HackMD https://hackmd.io/
  • StackEdit https://stackedit.io/app
• Async
  • Draft https://draftin.com/