Kilian Muster

Plain text is readable and createable by most applications, it’s light, virtually indestructable, and great for jotting down quick notes. However, getting from text to a visually appealing format usually means giving up all these virtues.

That’s where Markdown comes into play. Maybe you’ve never heard of it – it’s a way of structuring plain text so it can also be rendered as formatted HTML, PDF and other file formats. Markdown usage and support in OS X writing applications is soaring these days, so I thought I’d show you how I’m using Markdown every day.