We also use GitHub a lot at Rittman Mead, GitHub supports Markdown, so that is pretty easy. nvALT has very good search and I would strongly recommend using tags. The majority of what are notes that are consumed by me, so I use nvALT and Dropbox to make sure everything is synced between my two laptops, iPhone and iPad. So that pretty much covers off the writing side of things, the next step is where any of this gets published to. The one I found the most useful was SearchLink which is a quick way to put placeholder links when writing a page and then service will go and serach the internet and complete all the links. There are also some good libraries available online from MacSparky and Brett Terpstra, who also has some specific iOS ones.īrett Terpstra has also built a set of Markdown Service Tools which give you a load of accelerators and shortcuts for writing Markdown. TextExpander is one of the first things I install on any Mac or iOS device and I have started to build up a library of Markdown related snippets. It should also be noted that Multi-Markdown Composer uses a two pane approach, so you write and edit on the left and it previews on the right. To preview an more advanced Markdown or Multi-Markdown Marked is required. This is just quick and easy, plus you can use different styles including a GitHub one. NvALT also has a build it preview window that can be brought up by a key command, this is useful for quick previews, however the best tool I have found for previewing is Brett Terpstra’s Marked. I saw a couple of good reviews for it, but it really doesn’t work for me. Ulysses III to be honest I just don’t get. Multi-Markdown Composer I get, but just don’t find writing on it that easy and I haven’t quite got the stylesheets set up correctly yet. Byword I feel I should like, however have just never got enough traction with. Other things I have tried are Byword, Multi-Markdown Composer and recently Ulysses III. I like to use this in full screen mode when I just want to get my head down and write. IA Writer has the simplest and hence most productive interface. I think I’m right in saying that Folding Text doesn’t implement OSX’s autocorrect when typing, which I find quite useful, maybe a better typist wouldn’t need it. I also like the UI, so some of the longer things I write are done here. TextMate I like because of the autocompletion on the Escape Key, so if I am writing quite a technical document which has a lot of repeated words then it seems the quickest way of writing.įolding Text I like for outlining, planning out larger pieces of work and writing presentations. Depending on the nature of what I am writing I would say my top three are: TextMate, Folding Text and iA Writer. WritingĪs an editor nvALT does a good job, however for anything that is longer than a few hundred words I normally use a dedicated editor. Pretty much everything I write is in Markdown, most my writing starts in nvALT, whether this is notes from meetings, emails, or anything longer I could be writing. ![]() Over the last year I have been becoming more and more reliant on Markdown.
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