Markdown Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Drafts 3.0 adds draft and action management, much more

by Dave Caolo (Apr 24th, 2013)

Drafts, the iOS note-taker from Agile Tortoise, has been updated to version 3.0, and it's a big one. Drafts 3.0 is available now for the iPad (US$3.99) and iPhone ($2.99), and it's a free update for existing users. Much like Apple's own Notes, Drafts lets you quickly jot things down (we recently ...

Ulysses strives and seeks to be a better text editor for Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 8th, 2013)

Not long after I got my first personal Mac in 2004, I began looking for a robust writing program to replace Microsoft Word. There were a few good offerings that catered to what I wanted -- a word processor and a project manager. There was Circus Ponies' NoteBook, and I also used CopyWrite for a ...

Productivity Tip: Read the manual, or take a class

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 2nd, 2013)

There was a time when Mac owners scoffed at their PC-loving counterparts, who had to pore over paper manuals to grok the essentials of a software program before they tried to use it. When graphical user interfaces were introduced, a lot of focus was on making software intuitive and easy to use. ...

TUAW Bookshelf: Markdown by David Sparks & Eddie Smith

by Erica Sadun (Mar 28th, 2013)

Markdown (US$9.99, iPad only) by David Sparks and Eddie Smith, offers a terrific introduction to the Markdown plain text-to-HTML conversion spec. Originally created to provide an easier way to produce web content, Markdown is now an indispensable tool for developers and bloggers. This intro ...

MultiMarkdown Composer 2 is a powerful, flexible Markdown-based text editor

by TJ Luoma (Feb 5th, 2013)

MultiMarkdown Composer 2 has just been released and is currently available for US$5. Long story short: if you like to write in Markdown, you should get this app. Why MultiMarkdown? Markdown has been around for almost a decade, and has not changed much since its initial release. It gives ...

Nice roundup of Markdown-ready Mac apps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 15th, 2012)

Markdown can be a huge time saver, once you figure out how to use the lightweight markup language. Learning it, though, can be daunting to those with little or no prior knowledge of HTML. To help get you started, Appstorm recently published a list of over 35 different OS X apps that support the ...

VoodooPad 5: wiki magic

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 26th, 2012)

For those of us who nerd out about things like desktop wikis, VoodooPad 5 (from the creator of Acorn) is an exciting release. It brings new capabilities so powerful that they should come with a "for good, not evil" warning. If you're not familiar with VoodooPad, it's a desktop wiki with media ...

Byword for iOS released

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 14th, 2012)

Those who know me know that Byword has become my favorite writing tool. I've been keeping my mouth shut about this release during the beta testing period, but I'm really excited to announce it's arrival: Byword for iOS. The iOS version includes the Markdown-editing features that I love on the Mac, ...

Daily Mac App: WriteRoom

by Michael Rose (Nov 17th, 2011)

It seems every writer, coder or GTD aficionado has a favorite plain text editor on the Mac these days. For everyone who starts each day with a screenful of untitled TextEdit windows full of different short notes (that would describe my dear spouse, for the record) there's a TextMate guru, an ...

Daily iPad App: Elements 2

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 19th, 2011)

Elements is one of many text editors available in the App Store. It supports Dropbox, Markdown and TextExpander which makes it popular among iOS users. It's available for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, but the iPad version really shines as a text editor. Version 2 was just released and ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Byword

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 29th, 2011)

To a writer a decent text editor is worth its weight in gold. Unlike Word or Pages, Byword is a text editor that gives you just enough to get the job done, while getting out of your way. In its most basic form it's a plain text editor, but it can also produce and edit rich-text files and ...

Paragraft gets iOS Markdown editing right

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 17th, 2011)

I just discovered Paragraft, a text editor for iPad and iPhone that boasts some ingenious Markdown features (if I've lost you already, check out the TUAW Markdown Primer for a crash course). The good parts of Paragraft blew me away enough that I'm able to overlook an ugly icon and some bad ...

Byword 1.2, now with Markdown support

by Brett Terpstra (May 23rd, 2011)

Byword is a full-screen, "distraction-free" word processor that has an interesting twist: it focuses on just the text around your cursor (or even just the current line), dimming the rest of your composition so that even that can't distract you. Byword (and its predecessors) are based on the idea ...

Markdown Primer

by TJ Luoma (Dec 29th, 2010)

Many of the TUAW writers (and readers!) are fans of John Gruber's Markdown, so we tend to review both iOS and Mac apps that support Markdown. If you don't know what Markdown is or how to use it, those articles will probably leave you scratching your head (at best) or angry/frustrated wondering why ...

Notational Velocity ALT adds Markdown support and widescreen view

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 12th, 2010)

The runaway success of the iPad has provoked significant demand amongst people who want to seamlessly edit cloud-synced files across their iOS devices and their computers. We've seen a lot of apps vying to be the iOS part of that solution (such as SimpleNote, Elements, WriteRoom, Edito and a whole ...