Writing in Markdown instead of remembering each HTML tags. One of my biggest gripe about writing in HTML is that I always forget about the proper tags and I often google the proper tag for linking url and images. When I first heard about Markdown I was hesitant to learn another language thinking that I’m bad about remembering stuff. But I chance upon J. Eddie Smith, IV wonderful and simple Markdown tutorial and I was instantly hooked. Markdown let’s you write longform article without worrying about the proper HMTL tag and proper styling and instead let’s you write without distraction. Additionally, this also let me use one of my favorite writing app called nvALT 1, an alternative to Notational Velocity. Which you can also synch with your Simplenote account. I’ve also symlink my nvALT account on dropbox to ensure everything is in the cloud if ever Simplenote servers went down for maintenance. You can click the View Source button on the Preview pane of nvALT to view the HTML code and just copy/paste it into your blog. This just makes everything so much easy. Or you can just edit your Tumblr preference and choose Markdown as your choice of editor so you don’t have to. You can view the high resolution version of the image here and download the text document here for reference. nvALT has multimarkdown and additional features not available on the regular Notational Velocity ↩

Writing in Markdown instead of remembering each HTML tags. One of my biggest gripe about writing in HTML is that I always forget about the proper tags and I often google the proper tag for linking url and images. When I first heard about Markdown I was hesitant to learn another language thinking that I’m bad about remembering stuff. But I chance upon J. Eddie Smith, IV wonderful and simple Markdown tutorial and I was instantly hooked.

Markdown let’s you write longform article without worrying about the proper HMTL tag and proper styling and instead let’s you write without distraction. Additionally, this also let me use one of my favorite writing app called nvALT 1, an alternative to Notational Velocity. Which you can also synch with your Simplenote account. I’ve also symlink my nvALT account on dropbox to ensure everything is in the cloud if ever Simplenote servers went down for maintenance.

You can click the View Source button on the Preview pane of nvALT to view the HTML code and just copy/paste it into your blog. This just makes everything so much easy.

Or you can just edit your Tumblr preference and choose Markdown as your choice of editor so you don’t have to.

You can view the high resolution version of the image here and download the text document here for reference.

  1. nvALT has multimarkdown and additional features not available on the regular Notational Velocity ↩