MarkDown Blogging Resources

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Posted by washere
Mar 27, 2018 at 05:11 PM

Why MarkDown might be good?

* Minimal: say no more

* Fast: Just type a few lines & done

If you need them, back up the content as any company might be bought up or merge or stop existing
Medium,com is getting pretty big & is at bottom with a few guides.
These are the free ones that I liked overall:

http://pen.io/

https://anchorcms.com/

https://hexo.io/

https://svbtle.com/

https://jekyllrb.com/

https://bolt.cm/

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To blog on medium.com:

Benefits:
https://imgur.com/a/yRSE9

https://medium.com/

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Guides, Reviews etc:

https://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-use-medium

https://copyhackers.com/2016/02/publish-on-medium/

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002870328-Publisher-s-Guide-to-Medium

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-use-medium

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Free Browser Based Offline MarkDown Editor:
With Dual Panes to see Output Preview of MarkDown Code:

Download zip & extract folder to (C:\PortableApps if you have or elsewhere)
Run the index.html

https://github.com/jbt/markdown-editor/

https://github.com/jbt/markdown-editor/releases

MarkDown References:

ON SOME MarkDown Editors: To have a NewLine (Carriage Return) show up do either of below before pressing return/enter:
(two spaces)
\ (forward slash)

Then pressing return after them shows as new line. Some MD editors do not need the above.
No overall Standard for MD, stick to basics.

https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown+reference&tbm=isch

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

Online DUAL PANE (with preview) MD Editors:

https://pandao.github.io/editor.md/en.html
https://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/
http://markdownlivepreview.com/

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Dual Pane Free Software: BoostNote MarkDown for Multi Platforms:

https://boostnote.io/
https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote

http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8085
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 27, 2018 at 06:37 PM

Thanks, washere; a few there I haven’t heard of before. I shall definitely take a look!

Posted by marlowe
Mar 30, 2018 at 01:35 AM

Ghost has a desktop version, I think, and it’s a markdown based blogging platform.

Posted by Luhmann
Mar 31, 2018 at 04:07 AM

My favorite right now is http://micro.blog mostly because I found it really annoying to blog from my phone to Jekyll, but the micro.blog app does that very nicely. Micro.blog is billed as a kind of social-media feed, and you can definitely use it that way (it has a number of features, like @ replies and auto-posting to twitter/FB that facilitate this) but it can also be used as a regular blog. Support is very good.

It is also worth mentioning that WordPress has excellent Markdown support via the Jetpack Plugin and you can set the plain text editor as the default. Note, however, that if you post with a third-party tool (rather than directly in WordPress) your Markdown gets converted to HTML before posting.

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