Markdown

A declarative way of writing text.

As written by Derek Write plain text files and summarized them in my
Personal Knowledge Management Workflow for a Deeper Life.

Markdown has excellent features, such as Admonition (Call-outs)s.

Markdown is the bridge between simplicity and power, while Vim’s modal editing is the master key unlocking efficiency. Together, they elevate plain text into an automated, format-rich masterpiece, free from platform lock-ins. Your words deserve this freedom.
(on another note: Neovim)

Explained in How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash, it’s a way of making Markup and its Markup Language simpler:

If mark_up_ is complicated, then the opposite of that complexity must be… markd_own_. This kind of solution, where it’s so smart it seems obvious in hindsight, is key to Markdown’s success.

Creator is John Gruber.

Tools to write Obsidian-like graph networks open-sourced: Open-Source Obsidian Publish Alternatives

See in Static Site Generators (SSG) such as GoHugo.

• Obsidian
  • Example of public Data Engineering Wiki with Obsidian: Data Engineering Wiki - Reddit
• Roam
• Simple: Typora

• HackMD
• Stashpad - Your streamlined Google Docs alternative
  • check at Stashpad - Your streamlined Google Docs Alternative
• Twitter to Markdown: the.rip
• Markdown Drawing
• DXOS?

• Typora — simple yet powerful Markdown reader.
• iA Writer
• Neovim
• Notepad++
• TextMate
• Textastic

See Markdown vs Rich Text.

• Convert Markdown to Rich Text (Google Docs)

Obsidian and Markdown Plain Text Files are the most loved tools for developers in 2024.

Markdown wins the popularity contest with developers this year! Not only do users say they admire it more this year than last (84% vs. 82%), but Markdown also received the highest admired score of all technologies on our survey this year.

Source: Technology | 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

^4f88aa

Interesting, next admired are GitHub Discussions, also Markdown. Loving that.

Some use Astro like Maggie Appleton to vizualize in her blog, e.g. like Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks. And that’s certainly a limit of Markdown.

But for my writing and My Websites, I want to stay in Markdown as much as possible. Charts with Mermaid and tables I use everyday all day long. It also adds friction to not spend to much time on visuals, tough they can make all the difference, but my focus is on the words.

I am afraid of using new formats MDX and JSX, tough for testing it would be good. But so far I didn’t had a reason to change, because I couldn’t do anything. This is why I keep using GoHugo where I can write plain Markdown, seperated from the visuals or website design.

• How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash

Origin:
References: GoHugo
Created 2022-06-18