![]() Yes, the current version is still missing some important features one would expect from an outliner, but I already love it. FoldingText, on the other hand, is a great outliner. Mainly because I don’t like how it works as an outliner. I know a lot of academics, Rex included, really like Scrivener (“the first and only word processing program designed specifically for the messy, non-linear way writers really work”), but despite trying really hard to like it, it just never “clicked’ for me. So what changed? Why did I come around to Markdown (MD)? Well, the main thing for me was my discovery of FoldingText. However, some (but not all) of the tools discussed in this post aren’t really ready for prime time. That means it is bug-free, already has all the promised features, and can be easily used even by those who are less tech-savvy (with a bit of effort). Usually I only write my “Tools We Use” posts about software I feel confident about. I personally write my blog posts in raw HTML and never saw the advantage of learning Markdown… until now.īefore I go on, a word of warning. There are probably better options out there now, but we haven’t looked at them. Unfortunately, the plugin we were using to make those posts appear pretty was sucking up a lot of server resources so we disabled it until we could find something better. Most of these are by Rex, who was an early fan of Markdown, a “a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers” developed by John Gruber. If you look through the archives of Savage Minds you will find a lot of posts that are seemingly unformatted.
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