If you're a writer, but not a techie, do you like Markdown?
If so, what do you use to write your MD text?
Is any of it public? If so how do you get it on the web? Where do you store it? How much does it cost, if anything?
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@davew Yes, I use Markdown.
I've used it with WordPress for long time, then I've used Ulysses (a subscription based productivity app) to publish on WordPress directly. Now my site is switched to WriteFreely, and on my phone and tablet I use an app called GhostWriter, and another called Drafts.
@davew Technically I'm both. I just don't write as often as I'd like because I feel like a hypocrite asking people to read my shit if I'm not reading regularly and have fucking crippling self esteem when I right something longer than a social media rant.
I like Markdown not necessarily for the syntax itself or technical end of it so much as the seemingly universal adoption and how it can even be intuitive when you're writing in plain text.
@davew I write my texts in Joplin or in Zettlr. And then I copy/paste them into the Wordpress-Editor. Most of the MD is rendered there without s problem. I am nonetheless not at all satisfied with the process and am looking for a better solution. What does scripting.com run on?
@kunstweilkunst — anything that involves copy paste is too much work.
scripting.com works, but setting it up is too complicated for others to use.
@davew I am a writer and a nerd. No idea why anyone uses Markdown. But then I have never understood the text editor wars ether.
@davew Thanks for asking. I don't use MD - actually I can't use MD. It's part of my neurodivergence. In addition to dyslexia, I have some vision differences from normals. I need to see the shape of words, phrases, etc. to read, including to read what I am writing. MD is very difficult for me to read. Dyslexia means I'm already wrestling with coding/decoding ideas into words. MD adds another layer of decoding/coding.
So how do i write? I use WYSIWYG editors. TinyMCE is great.