Use these open source tools for jotting down notes.

A piece of writing aiming to be academic must be 'clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence'. We believe that Markdown writing tools make it easier to focus on content and thus support the main aim of academic writing. iA Writer has a couple of tricks up its sleeves that other apps do not.

Ronn is a fantastic, simple tool that leverages the Markdown you use every day to create man pages for your command-line software.

Converting a man page to markdown is a three step process: installing a tool that can convert the source of a man page to markdown finding the location of the man page source doing the actual conve…

For awhile now, I was wondering if it was possible to use Markdown, to make an image clickable. By that I mean, display an image in a blo...

man pages are one of the most tenacious forms of programmer-oriented documentation. These manual pages have changed relatively little since their first publication in 1971. Regardless of whether or not they’re still relevant in the age of the internet, they remain an invaluable reference for any serious command line application or C library function.

It may come as a surprise to some (many), but I’ve never really made effective use of TextExpander on my iPad or iPhone ( TextExpander touch ). I don’t do a lot of the things on my iPad which I do on

A sample chapter of Scott Nesbitt's updated "Learning Markdown" ebook.

Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields