When I use the syntax for links it uses subtle shading to remind me what I’ve done there.Īlso I can tap the preview button at any time and see it rendered as the final version will look. The main writing UI shows subtle effects - when I use ** for bold or * for italic, the relevant words are shown in bold and italic respectively. I don’t think it would suit my writing style. It is possible go into a super-minimal ‘focus mode’ but I’ve never tried that and so I can’t comment on it. The writing interface is minimal and that suits me just fine. If you want to read more about markdown, you can read up lots of details here It is a very clean UI, but it helps me organise well It can be handled, but it is honestly a little clunky! There is one big drawback with markdown, and that is that it doesn’t handle tables well (and sometimes it is important to include tabular information). I’m a touch typist, and the ability to easily apply formatting while I’m typing is a big draw too. The secret sauce is that it is easy to convert into proper semantic HTML, and so it is easy to go from my writing to posts on my website here (which is powered by the static site generator Jekyll). Markdown is a plain text format that uses some sensible and easy to understand characters for formatting - when you read the plain text version it is easy to understand the structure of the document. Why is this my choice? Several reasons I like writing in markdown I’ve shifted over time from one to another, and at the moment my preferred choice is iA Writer. The choice of software for writing is as individual a choice as anyone is likely to make. My current choice of writing tool is iA Writer.

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