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 ...

Inspired in part by setext, the lightweight markup language designed for TidBITS in 1992, John Gruber’s Markdown revolutionized the way people write for the Web a dozen years later. Writers were freed ...

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 ...

In my last two postings, I introduced a way to create slide presentations by writing them in a simple text file, with Markdown formatting, and add some of the “infinite canvas” features of Impress.js.

Our digital workflow requires taking notes, writing documentation, and creating content at a rapid pace. While you are ...

Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones. In a blog post announcing the feature, Google says it’s ...

If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your iOS device’s e-mail messages with a little styled text, you’ve run up against one of the limitations of Apple’s mobile software. But if you’ve got proficiency ...

Markdown is a markup language that is based on a set of rules, such as 'putting a '#' at the beginning of a line makes it a heading' and 'enclosing a phrase with '**' makes it bold.' It was originally ...