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I was introduced to markdown via RStudio. But what I really use the most nowadays is markdown for making notes during meetings etc, using a minimalist editor (T
by xenocyon 6y ago
I was introduced to markdown via RStudio. But what I really use the most nowadays is markdown for making notes during meetings etc, using a minimalist editor (Typora). I just wish it weren't so complicated/ugly to copy/paste markdown to/from other tools, like Outlook or Confluence.
I use only the basic and common syntactic elements (lists, headings, italics, links). IMHO the beauty of markdown is its simplicity, and trying to do complicated stuff like diagrams and tables is best left to other tools. (Another problem with the more ambitious uses is that they tend to not be standardized across markdown implementations.)
- maguay 6y agoAuthor here: Agreed on it being better to do advanced stuff in other apps. I found it interesting that the original Markdown launch posts basically say that. Textile was trying to cover the vast majority of HTML; Gruber with Markdown basically said that this is to simplify writing for the web, and if you need HTML, you can just include HTML inline for extra stuff beyond the writing basics.