Markdown guides

• Markdown Guide
• Markdown Tutorial

Markdown editors

In this session, we use the online editor Dillinger, but there are many other online Markdown editors available. Here is a list of some of them:

• Editor.md - Open-source online Markdown editor
• Markdown Editor
• Markdown Plus - Markdown editor with extra features
• MarkdownApp
• Marxico - Markdown editor for Evernote
• Mathdown - Has support for math and updates in the editor window
• Notedown - Distraction-free offline Markdown editor for the web
• Overleaf - Online collaborative LaTeX editor
• SimpleMDE - JavaScript Markdown editor
• Write.md
• Zettlr - Markdown editor with citation management support
• QOwnNotes - Free cross-platform Markdown note-taking app
• MindForger - Thinking Notebook and Markdown editor

Import and export formats

The tools below can help with importing content into Markdown and exporting Markdown files to a variety of other formats.

Input

Getting documents and content into Markdown format:

• Pandoc - “Swiss-army knife” for converting from one markup format to another
  • Try it online here
• Paste-to-Markdown - Paste in rich text and immediately get the equivalent plain text Markdown
• Word-to-Markdown - Convert all your Word documents to Markdown

Output

Converting plain text Markdown files into:

• PhD thesis dissertations: phd_thesis_markdown
  • Example PDF
• Slideshow presentations: reveal-ck (Reveal.js Construction Kit)
  • Reveal.js - official homepage
• Table of contents: tocdown
• HTML: remarkable
• Documentation: Just the Docs
• Websites: See the Introduction to Jekyll workshop
  • Jekyll - official homepage
• Nicely formatted email: Markdown-here

Statistics & analysis

For data science, you can use R Markdown (Markdown with working program code mixed in):

• RStudio - an integrated development environment (IDE) for statistical computing that supports R Markdown