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Writing in Markdown: An Introduction

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Markdown is a simple plaintext document format that makes it easy to focus on your writing. Here are some easy ways to get started writing in Markdown.
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Markdown has steadily become the dominant way I compose most text documents, which is saying a lot. Its convenience, simplicity, expressiveness, and increasing ubiquity make it a compelling choice for all but a small fraction of the written material I produce. What is Markdown, and what makes it so great? And could/should you use it yourself?
Markdown is a simple plaintext way to write moderately complex text documents — the types of content you might otherwise use a word processor to write. It’s composed of raw, unformatted text, with no images, bold, italic, or anything like that. But it lets you include extremely simple formatting instructions within the text, which look almost like you want the formatted document to look.
The most obvious example is bulleted lists. The following code,
Creates the following bulleted list:
Markdown really is that simple. You basically write a code that doesn’t look like a code.
This lets you stop writing with WYSIWYG visual editors that somehow manage to mangle your writing and insert annoying invisible code that makes odd, frustrating things happen — like a bulleted list that has extra space between bullets that you can’t seem to get rid of.
Many people report that when they write with Markdown, they feel more focused. Markdown has a way of disappearing and getting out of the writer’s way.

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