The Way of Markdown

Since 5 Oct 2026 Google Drive previews .md files and Docs edits, comments on and shares them without converting.

The site has a new design: one orange, a serif for reading, mono for structure, a brush-stroke # for a logo and a roadmap that moves.

A daily/weekly digest that tracks top AI builders on X and YouTube, remixes their content into summaries.

A short list of Markdown editors for writing, previewing and working with Markdown files.

Download the Way of Markdown brand mark: animated GIF, SVG and PNG in green, black and white, with guidance on which to use where.

The site's whole learning path is now one clickable, colour-coded picture — generated from a plain-text data file, naturally.

A new site about markdown and everything you can build on it — guides, a visual roadmap, a manifesto, and the big list of every app that speaks markdown.

Repository, clone, commit, push, branch, fork, pull request, merge — every term you meet in a markdown workflow, explained in plain language.

Reddit has supported markdown for over a decade: bold, links, lists, tables, spoilers, superscript.

Obsidian doesn't 'support' markdown, it IS markdown: plain files on your disk with a beautiful editor on top.

GitHub runs on markdown: READMEs, issues, pull requests, comments, wikis.

Put a '❤ Markdown' badge on your site, README or docs, linking back to the Markdown Manifesto.

A fair, feature-by-feature comparison of Notion against the markdown-based stack (Obsidian, Bases, git, publishing).

Apple Notes still lacks native markdown on the Mac — ProNotes fixes it — while iPad Notes finally added markdown import and export.

Who's behind The Way of Markdown, why it exists, and how the site itself is made (spoiler: it's markdown in a public repo).

I committed the wrong thing, I can't push, there's a merge conflict — calm fixes for the git situations every markdown-site editor eventually hits.

The documents that made markdown: Gruber's original spec, Aaron Swartz's posts, the CommonMark story, File over app, and the best of the rest — annotated.

You have a markdown file; you want it on the web as a page someone can read.

A landing page — hero, pitch, call to action — from a markdown file, using the HTML-in-markdown superpower.

From plain-text prehistory through Gruber and Swartz's 2004 release to CommonMark, GitHub, and the AI era: how markdown quietly took over the world.

Fenced code blocks make markdown extensible: label a ``` block and you can embed mermaid diagrams, database views, math, whole other tools — inside plain text.

The reference shelf: markdown converters, AI and Obsidian workflows, Git and GitHub help for non-developers, and the essential reading.

Telegram supports markdown-style formatting in chats — bold, italic, code, spoilers — with quirks per platform, plus a full MarkdownV2 dialect for bots.

How to build and publish a real website from plain markdown files: the architecture, the tools, and the underrated superpower that markdown supports HTML.

Save the web as markdown you own: clip pages to clean text with Obsidian Web Clipper or into.md, annotate them, and search them forever.

Docs-as-code: product and project documentation as markdown files in the repo, published as a site.

Every AI chat speaks markdown natively — that's why the output has headings and bold.

What a digital garden is — notes published while still growing — and how to grow one from your markdown notes with Obsidian and Flowershow.

A blog is a folder of dated markdown posts plus a publisher.

A step-by-step path for new team members: learn markdown, get working with GitHub, and start contributing to markdown knowledge bases and websites.

Write your book as markdown chapters and publish to everything — PDF, EPUB, print, web — with pandoc and friends.

Markdown is eveywhere: this is an updating list of apps and tools that support markdown — WhatsApp, Google Docs, Discord, Slack, Notion, Obsidian, AI chats and more.

Websites, blogs, wikis, knowledge bases, databases, digital gardens, even a Notion replacement — all from plain markdown files you own.

Most of what you do in Notion — docs, wikis, light databases — works as plain markdown files with Obsidian, git and friends.

Video tutorials on markdown knowledge bases, publishing, web clipping, AI editing and more.

Notion supports markdown three ways: live shortcuts as you type, pasting markdown in, and importing/exporting .md files.

Build a knowledge base from plain markdown files: Obsidian, wiki-links, backlinks, structure that emerges as you go — and publishing when you're ready.

WhatsApp formatting is basically markdown with an accent: *bold*, _italic_, ~strikethrough~, lists, quotes and monospace.

Slack supports markdown-style formatting but with its own dialect called mrkdwn: single-asterisk bold, no headings, and a hidden setting you should know about.

Run your team wiki or handbook as markdown files in a git repo: everyone can edit, changes get reviewed, history comes free.

Discord supports a proper markdown subset: bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes, code blocks with syntax highlighting, spoilers and more.

One markdown file per day: the simplest journaling system, durable for decades, private by default, searchable forever — and reviewable with AI.

Markdown is eating the world.

Learn markdown in ten minutes: headings, bold, links, lists, code, tables, frontmatter.

Build small databases and catalogs from markdown files: frontmatter as fields, folders as tables, Obsidian Bases for views, markdowndb for queries.