"Lazy" Markdown footnotes. Carl Johnson left a comment on my “Lazy Markdown Links” post to mention that he’s long used a similar “lazy” method for footnotes.
It struck me as a great idea. I whipped up another preprocessor1 for Marked 2 to make it work. It works as a standalone script, too. While I thought the lazy Markdown links were a neat trick, they didn’t really affect my personal writing style. I generally work in one of three ways: gather all of my reference links at once and put them together at the bottom, write inline links for speed and use the Markdown Service Tools to “Flip Link Style” and clean them up as reference links, or I’m using SearchLink with a combination of the above. Let me first say that Fletcher Penney has recently made this irrelevant in MultiMarkdown 4 (downloads here). Quicker Markdown linking with TextExpander - All this. July 16, 2014 at 12:15 AM by Dr.
Drang I listened to the Mac Power Users TextExpander episode today and noticed that I come off as a bit of a dick, always correcting others. This was surprising only inasmuch as I wasn’t on the show. Normally, I have to be present to demonstrate my dickishness, but David and Katie have dealt with me enough to limn my essence without me. Still, as Marvin and Tammi say, ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby. He describes it starting at about 38:30. The Not Nurse Ratched System for Mind-Mapping Markdown. If you like using mind maps and Markdown, this post is for you.
If you don’t, check out the links below and give me a chance to interest you in both. I’ll show you how to create a mind map that exports to a finished Markdown document. I’ll provide a bit of background and linkage, but readers who want to skip to the good stuff can go right ahead. Mind maps and apps Mind maps are the perfect way to brainstorm. For my money, though, Tree.app is the be-all end-all in Mac mind-mapping applications. Marker: Web selections to Markdown. This is a variant of my Bullseye bookmarklet which takes a selection – including headlines, links, and images – and converts it to Markdown using Marky.
It’s not perfect, and still has some trouble loading on SSL sites ( Because you can select partial text nodes within an element, it occasionally has trouble putting the pieces back together. It also doesn’t currently detect whether the selection contains hidden elements, so all elements present in the selection are converted (whether you know they’re there or not). Overall, it seems to be working great. The bookmarklet below loads from a Gist, so it will always run the latest source. I’ll update it as I need to, and feel free to fork or just offer suggestions in the comments of the gist or by contacting me. Install by dragging the link below into your Bookmarks bar. By default, the bookmarklet will take you directly to the raw HTML for the selection.
The Journey to Markdown: On the Mac. Yesterday I dipped my toe into Markdown’s waters.
Today I jump right in. Since my primary (all right, let’s face it – only) computing devices are made by Apple, it goes without saying that most of my Markdown writing will be done in Mac OS X. With my trusty – and speedy – 11” MacBook Air at my command, I’m about to put apps that deliver the goods in Markdown a shot at being my “main writing thing” for online work. While there are plenty of them out there, the ones that stand out amongst the pack in my eyes are Byword and nvALT. Byword I’ve been playing with Byword for awhile now and I am very impressed. Byword lets you write in an unobtrusive environment, is elegantly crafted and handles Markdown like a champ.
NvALT. The Journey to Markdown: On the Results — Productivityist. Well, it’s been an interesting ride.
I’ve learned a lot and have tried out a lot of different applications along the way. The Journey to Markdown: On Day One. “Well, this is going to be interesting.” - Yours truly on learning Markdown The first thoughts I had when I took on this challenge was whether or not I’d be able to find the time to do it…even though I’ve been told it wouldn’t take up all that much time to begin with.
I’m working on a bunch of projects, preparing for a talk, working on a book and trying to help my wife get our daughter ready for school. Learning Markdown over the course of the long weekend wasn’t exactly going to be the only thing on my mind. But with the encouragment of others and further reserach as to what I was in for, I steeled myself and took the plunge.
And this is what happened on Day One of said plunge. Reading I spent quite a bit of time just reading about this new language I was learning. Writing Next up was practicing the writing aspect of Markdown. The Journey to Markdown: On the Integration — Productivityist. So it has been almost two months since I last wrote about my adventures in Markdown, and even that article was brief as I discovered that I wasn’t a fan of using my iPhone for writing – Markdown or otherwise.
The journey contiues today with how I’ve integrated the use of Markdown into my online writing. And not just here…but everywhere. The Journey to Markdown: On the Workflow — Productivityist.