Jan 24
2012

This post should have been titled “What happens to my mornings.”

I get a lot of one-off requests for scripts and tips on how to handle tasks specific to people’s workflow or writing style. I generally keep myself pretty busy, so I usually reply with a quick idea or thought and leave it up to them to run with it. David Coleman emailed me this morning, though, with…

Jan 04
2012

I wanted to share a handy tool that I realized I use daily but rarely talk about. I call it Read2Text, but it’s really just a Frankenstein script which combines Python Readability (license) with html2text (license). The combination allows you to grab web pages, process them with a port of Arc90’s Readability and convert the HTML to Markdown, ready for pasting or piping to a text file.

Dec 25
2011

We’re having a low-key holiday this year. I mean really low-key. Aditi’s napping on the couch, the dogs are all sleeping, the cats and the bird are lazily preening themselves and I just fixed Markdown QuickTags.

Markdown QuickTags, my WordPress plugin which adds a massive number of Markdown-editing features to the built-in post/page editor had broken with the…

Dec 19
2011

Marked v1.3.2 has been uploaded and is waiting for review. This release, despite being an incremental version number, has some exciting new features. Here’s a preview of the changelog:

The new location of the Table of Contents avoids a lot of overlap concerns. When there are headers (h2-h6) in the document, a button will appear next to the gear menu (to the left) and clicking…

Nov 28
2011

Following up on the 50% off Marked sale over the weekend, I’m putting three more Marked promo codes up for grabs. Marked is my own MultiMarkdown preview app which works with any text editor to provide an updated preview every time you save your file.

There’s a new version of Marked on the horizon with a few new features, and one a little down the road with built-in support…

Nov 27
2011

I’m really excited to be putting this one up: Five promo codes for Byword for Mac. It’s US $9.99 on the App Store, but leave a comment on this post and have a chance to pick up a copy for free! I’ve mentioned Byword before, and it’s one of my favorite writing tools on my Mac. It has great tools for Markdown writers, too, and some very handy keyboard shortcuts.

Nov 26
2011

Continuing the very exciting Thanksgiving giveaways today I have five promo codes for Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Composer (reviewed here). It’s a text editor packed with features for editing Markdown and MultiMarkdown, including syntax highlighting, document header navigation, shortcuts for adding MultiMarkdown syntax and much more.