Last August on ProfHacker Lincoln wrote about Markdown, which he called “the syntax you (probably) already know.” Designed primarily by John Gruber, Markdown is a way to format your documents in plain ...

There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

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 ...

TableFlip, by indie developer Christian Tietze, does something no other Mac app I know of does – it lets you create and edit Markdown tables in a familiar spreadsheet-like interface. Table syntax is ...

The Mac and iOS versions of Ulysses got handy, incremental improvements on Wednesday, and AppleInsider puts virtual pen to paper to test them out. Ulysses 2.7 is a writing studio, or a writing ...