The beautiful thing about Markdown is that you can write in literally any writing app. And inevitably, my thoughts turned to my writing: If my writing app disappeared tomorrow, could I salvage my writing? This spurred me along to start taking notes in different programs so I could find something that would be a little more flexible. If Evernote had decided to disappear at short notice, I would have had nothing. Problem was, I still had loads of information in Evernote that I would need to transfer over.Īll of it was formatted in an Evernote-specific file. Once they started making changes to their plans, I decided to entertain different notetaking apps. In the last few years, I’ve become very concerned about exporting and backing up data.įor example, Evernote used to be my external brain for years. You could write in a notepad program, and when you import it into its final location, it’s all formatted the way you want, with bold and italics and headings and URLs, even though you wrote in plain text. Writing in Markdown means you can write in any word processor, in plain text, and then translate your writing into a formatted document with a simple copy and paste. There are no proprietary file extensions like “.gdoc” or “.docx” or whatever. When you format in Markdown, you don’t have to worry about coverting your file before publishing it or sending it to a client. In simplest terms, Markdown is just a way of formatting your work.Ĭreated in 2004, the entire idea behind Markdown is separating your writing from writing apps.
But if famous works of art can be created with a pen and a quill, or on a typewriter, or in a paper notebook, then you don’t need any writing app. Now, that doesn’t mean we don’t have needs. You need to use something that gets out of the way and allows you to put words on the page. If you want to be a writer, you can’t sit around Googling different apps. I know that’s almost blasphemous to say, but it’s the truth. No matter how many different ways I try to dance around it, there is no magic app that allows me to write more or better.Īnd despite all the marketing claims on their web pages, no writing app makes you a more productive writer.
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