40 stories tagged markdown, newest first.
38 points by trendschau | 36 comments
A Typemill knowledge-hub article arguing for storing development tasks as Markdown files in Git so AI coding agents can read them alongside code and docs.
21 points by TheWoollyBully | 77 comments
Personal blog essay by Joshua Morris arguing that operating systems should natively open, render, and edit Markdown files across computers, tablets, and phones.
9 points by textlanes33 | 0 comments
Landing page for Bloffy, a lightweight blogging platform with a Markdown/HTML editor, custom CSS, custom domains, cookieless analytics and high PageSpeed scores.
29 points by cyrillsemah | 8 comments
Landing page for Sygal, a desktop app that converts PDFs, Office files, scans, web pages and YouTube links into Markdown and JSON locally for AI use.
153 points by speckx | 73 comments
A blog post on Dead Parrot BBS arguing that plain text remains one of the most durable and useful computing technologies due to its longevity and openness.
186 points by dancablam | 83 comments
Landing page for Ledge, an open-source Markdown notebook app that runs shell commands, code, and SQL from inside notes, locally or over SSH.
9 points by luu | 9 comments
Jeff Kaufman's blog post announcing his Clipboard Normalizer, which strips formatting to Markdown-representable content, is now a free Mac App Store app.
55 points by thiagoperes | 39 comments
Landing page for Beauty, a local Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web with in-place rendering; the capture shows a Vercel security checkpoint instead.
138 points by perrygeo | 77 comments
An htmx.org essay by Carson Gross arguing that Markdown is becoming source code and should be checked into /src, with code and tests derived from it rather than ephemeral prompts.
365 points by fiddlosopher | 46 comments
A retrospective by pandoc's creator marking twenty years since the first release of the Haskell document converter in 2006.
423 points by ankitg12 | 55 comments
A searchable gallery of Pandoc templates filterable by output format (LaTeX, PDF, HTML, DOCX, EPUB) and document type such as CV, letter, thesis, or slides.
642 points by zakirullin | 312 comments
GitHub repository for files.md, an MIT-licensed open-source note-taking app that keeps your life in plain Markdown files, pitched as an Obsidian alternative.
395 points by dive | 265 comments
A blog post by a longtime macOS/iOS developer arguing that native SwiftUI text handling, such as selectable Markdown chat, is immature compared to web-based stacks.
394 points by rdslw | 247 comments
A blog post arguing developers want a good Markdown viewer, discussing how LLM agents have revived TUI tooling and an Emacs-like trend in software.
322 points by amai | 122 comments
Landing page for Quarkdown, an extended Markdown tool for producing papers, books, presentations, static sites, and knowledge bases.
770 points by enriquelop | 225 comments
GitHub repository publishing over 8,600 Spanish laws as Markdown files, with each legislative reform recorded as a Git commit.
350 points by dancablam | 88 comments
Landing page for Email.md, a tool that converts Markdown into responsive, email-safe HTML, with templates, a builder, docs, and a GitHub link.
337 points by andreynering | 503 comments
Windows Insider blog post announcing Notepad and Paint updates rolling out to Canary and Dev Channel Insiders on Windows 11, including Markdown support in Notepad.
389 points by zdw | 292 comments
Anil Dash blog post recounting the history of Markdown and how it became a ubiquitous text formatting standard across software and AI.
355 points by thomascountz | 156 comments
Blog post introducing hashcards, a local-first spaced repetition app that stores flashcards as plain Markdown files and schedules reviews with FSRS.
377 points by noahbrier | 197 comments
Blog post by Noah Brier on Alephic describing how Claude Code, combined with Obsidian's plain Markdown files and filesystem access, became his agentic operating system.
411 points by panphora | 93 comments
Show HN post introducing OverType, a 45KB markdown editor that overlays a transparent textarea on a rendered preview to look like rich text editing.
406 points by simedw | 177 comments
Blog post introducing Spegel, a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that passes HTML through an LLM and renders the result as markdown in the terminal.
592 points by asicsp | 247 comments
GitHub repository for Quarkdown, an extended Markdown-based typesetting system for producing presentations, articles, and books.
370 points by kepano | 62 comments
GitHub repository for Defuddle, an MIT-licensed JavaScript library that extracts main content and metadata from web pages and can output Markdown.
779 points by koch | 82 comments
Homepage for Markwhen, a markdown-like journal language for writing timelines, logs, gantt charts, calendars and other time-based notes, with an interactive syntax demo.
325 points by JohannesKauf | 47 comments
GitHub repository for html-to-markdown v2, a Go library and CLI that converts HTML, including entire websites, into Markdown with extensible rules.
515 points by judell | 203 comments
A long blog post reviewing Typst, a typesetting language and tool similar to LaTeX, covering styling, scripting, plugins, and comparisons to LaTeX, Markdown, and Word.
371 points by deepmacro | 131 comments
Tenno is a web app for live-editable Markdown documents with computational cells and charts, combining word processing and spreadsheet features.
439 points by eigenvalue | 155 comments
GitHub repository for LLM-aided OCR, a Python tool that corrects Tesseract OCR output from scanned PDFs using multi-stage LLM prompts and outputs markdown.
320 points by BerislavLopac | 379 comments
Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post arguing that reStructuredText is preferable to Markdown for writing books and documentation with Sphinx.
601 points by pentagrama | 121 comments
Google Workspace Updates blog post announcing the ability to import and export Markdown files in Google Docs, published July 16, 2024.
359 points by surprisetalk | 81 comments
A TIL blog post showing how Mermaid Gantt diagrams can display distributed trace data, like Jaeger UI views, directly in Markdown documentation.
401 points by padolsey | 134 comments
at.hn is a site that renders opted-in Hacker News users' bios as markdown profile pages at {username}.at.hn subdomains.
743 points by swatson741 | 271 comments
Homepage of Pandoc, a universal document converter that translates between many markup formats such as Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, and Org-Mode.
532 points by angrymouse | 135 comments
Getting started documentation for Blot, a blogging service that turns files in a synced folder into posts on a website.
533 points by sebg | 84 comments
GitHub repository for Marker, a GPL-licensed tool by Vik Paruchuri that converts PDF documents to Markdown quickly and accurately.
391 points by swatson741 | 109 comments
Documentation introduction for mdBook, a Rust command line tool that builds navigable books and documentation sites from Markdown files.
410 points by arek_nawo | 122 comments
Vrite Editor, an open-source WYSIWYG Markdown editor web app; the captured page shows a message that small viewports are unsupported.
342 points by hughess | 88 comments
Landing page for Evidence, an open-source business intelligence tool for building data products and reports with SQL and markdown.