This Chrome extension lets you compose emails in Markdown, and then convert it to HTML to use in Gmail. Gmail doesn’t offer you much in the way of formatting to make your emails look more attactive.

The Byword app allows you to use Markdown for text formatting. Markdown employs simple, easy-to-learn codes for formatting text to appear on the web. (Image via Byword) Some really geeky things end up ...

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 ...

Markdown is a Perl script that converts plain text into Web-ready HTML; it’s also a shorthand syntax for writing HTML tags without needing to write the actual HTML. Markdown has been around for a ...

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 ...

For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some flair, but ...

R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R code, and the results of R code in a single document. And when that document is rendered as HTML, you ...

I know, I went and used "wiki" and "Markdown" in the headline and scared off all of the non-nerds. Nerds, welcome. If you're a non-nerd who kept reading, well, keep reading. Markdown is an easy way to ...

At its core, Markdown is a super simple way to add formatting like headers, bold, bulleted lists, and so on to plain text. It was originally designed to be an easy alternative to HTML, and allows ...

Now if only we could get real Markdown support in Jira/Confluence. I know there's support there, but you have to go through some poorly designed wizards every time you want to bring MD in. I've found ...