#markdown

You get HTML, trackers, cookie banners, popups, and JavaScript. This needs a browser built by thousands of engineers just to show you a paragraph. Machines get the clean version.

The following frontmatter values have special meanings and requirements for GitHub Docs. There's also a schema that's used by the test suite to validate every page's frontmatter. For more information, see lib/frontmatter.ts.

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A command-line tool that converts Anthropic Claude conversation exports to Markdown files.

I think about this sometimes when I'm writing in Vim at midnight, just me and a blinking cursor and a plain text file that will still be readable when I'm dead. No filesystem-within-a-filesystem. No sector allocation tables. No 5,039-page specification. Just words, a few hash marks, and never having to think about it again.

So, here’s something that I didn’t expect to be saying in 2026: There seems to be a nonzero chance that Markdown might become the new RSS.

Here’s how it works. To fetch the markdown version of any page from a zone with Markdown for Agents enabled, the client needs to add the Accept negotiation header with text/markdown as one of the options. Cloudflare will detect this, fetch the original HTML version from the origin, and convert it to markdown before serving it to the client.

Convert Markdown to rich HTML clipboard content

But the truth is, most people today who make technology are actually still exceedingly normal, and quite generous. It’s just that they’ve been overshadowed by their bosses who are out of their minds and building rocket ships and siring hundreds of children and embracing overt white supremacy instead of making fun tools for helping you type text, like regular people do.

Quartz is a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites. Thousands of students, developers, and teachers are already using Quartz to publish personal notes, websites, and digital gardens to the web.

Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.

Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.

Milkdown is a powerful WYSIWYG markdown editor that combines the simplicity of markdown with the flexibility of a modern editor. It's designed to be lightweight yet extensible, making it perfect for both simple and complex editing needs.

📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. - marktext/marktext

A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.

A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.

Ficdown is a set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction.

Ficdown is a set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction.

Sir trevor content is made up of blocks. By default Sir Trevor ships with the following block types, but you can easily add your own

Sir trevor content is made up of blocks. By default Sir Trevor ships with the following block types, but you can easily add your own

Writemonkey is a Windows zenware* writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. It is light, fast and free. With an array of innovative tools under the hood and full Markdown* support, it helps you write better.

Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs.

Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs.

GitHub Pages are hosted for free and easily published through our site, the GitHub for Mac app, or from the command line. Manage your site’s content from GitHub using the tools and workflow that you’re familiar with. Learn about publishing with GitHub Pages here.

GitHub Pages are hosted for free and easily published through our site, the GitHub for Mac app, or from the command line. Manage your site’s content from GitHub using the tools and workflow that you’re familiar with. Learn about publishing with GitHub Pages here.

Prose provides a beautifully simple content authoring environment for CMS-free websites. It's a web-based interface for managing content on GitHub. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub. Host your website on GitHub Pages for free, or set up your own GitHub webhook server.

If you look through the archives of Savage Minds you will find a lot of posts that are seemingly unformatted. Most of these are by Rex, who was an early fan of Markdown, a "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" developed by John Gruber. Unfortunately, the plugin we were using to make those posts appear pretty was sucking up a lot of server resources so we disabled it until we could find something better. There are probably better options out there now, but we haven’t looked at them. I personally write my blog posts in raw HTML and never saw the advantage of learning Markdown… until now.

If you look through the archives of Savage Minds you will find a lot of posts that are seemingly unformatted. Most of these are by Rex, who was an early fan of Markdown, a "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" developed by John Gruber. Unfortunately, the plugin we were using to make those posts appear pretty was sucking up a lot of server resources so we disabled it until we could find something better. There are probably better options out there now, but we haven’t looked at them. I personally write my blog posts in raw HTML and never saw the advantage of learning Markdown… until now.

CSS to make HTML markup look like plain-text markdown.

CSS to make HTML markup look like plain-text markdown.

The difference is subtle, but the comparison makes it very clear. There are several major problems with the computer-created icons that leaves them looking blurry and unimpressive. For example, in the transition from 66x40 to 48x30 pixels, the human version drops the border down to exactly 2 pixels but the computer drops it to 2.8 (that's two solid black pixels, plus one half-pixel at 80% intensity), which gives it an incorrect soft edge. The computer has no way of knowing that the border should always be sharp, so it ignorantly tries to maintain the ratio of the originally-specified image at the expense of sharpness. The result is not great.

Use this mark to identify Markdown

I'm making something that uses Markdown, and there's currently no great universal symbol for identifying Markdown support. So I created one.

Various utility files to expand the features of MultiMarkdown 3.0 — Read more

Pick your favorite editor: Marked's flexible Markdown preview will show you the final output of your document as you work, and its writing tools make your life easier from concept to publish.

Pelican is a simple weblog generator, writen in python.

Publishing for writers who love Markdown and Dropbox

"This is a Vim syntax file for the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool."

"a JavaScript port of Markdown"

"Markdown for Tinderbox took about 10 minutes from download to done."

"Processes files with Markdown syntax for Apache"

"Taking inspiration from Merlin Mann's fantastic 43 Folders, here's a quick hint for those of you who are just dying to use John Gruber's Markdown ... on Windows."

"a partial implementation of Markdown, written in JavaScript"