Ryan Cordell reviews Boostnote, an application for taking notes using the Markdown plain-text syntax and also saving snippets of code in a range of programming languages.

I've been on the Obsidian train for quite a while now, and it's been an excellent way to take quick, structured notes that I can sync across all of my devices. Combined with Blinko, both have enabled ...

There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

Here at Macworld, we’re big fans of Markdown, a nifty markup language that lets you write for the Web using plain text and a simple formatting syntax. In fact, many of the articles you read here on ...

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 ...