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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish

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10 months agoby cratermoon

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Pandoc is to me the single most useful visible Haskell outcome. The entire language would be justified to me by this polyglot format translator

10 months agoby ggm

I think markdown's success comes from it's open and simple standards. When things can be easily parsed and rendered, anyone can build tools that use it. When things are interoperable, the tools can change but the format lasts forever.

10 months agoby forthwall

Good stuff but criminal to not mention Obsidian

Why would I buy a subscription to a markdown editor when Obsidian exists

10 months agoby nylonstrung

Their main product -- Windows and Mac platforms only:

https://ia.net/writer

Can't seem to find screenshots. Anyone used it?

10 months agoby everybodyknows