I think you are talking to the right audience who will be excited about all the tools you shared. But to me all these things get in the way of writing. I wrote

I think you are talking to the right audience who will be excited about all the tools you shared. But to me all these things get in the way of writing. I wrote my first book (short story) entirely on gedit 2.x. It's only when I completed it that I started to use tools to automate publishing. Markdown, auto epub, html, and what not. These tools are a distraction to the process. I just posted another book I'm writing on github and was asked to share a link to it. Now that an audience is actually watching, I spent countless days building tools around it rather than writing the content. It's nice and all, but I better get back to writing the book or I'll have a beautiful pile of code that does nothing. It supports markdown though...