I store all of my writing as separate Markdown files. A basic tagging system^tag adds more "searchability," and I can quickly locate any file with Spotlight^spot. Given the amount of time I spend in T
Martin Kopischke has taken my little Markdown to Evernote Service and made it whole. I dropped the project pretty quickly as I stopped using Evernote as my primary storage for text notes, and I left i
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I was playing with the new TextMate Markdown bundle for MultiMarkdown 3 when I remembered an old nit I had with the list commands: no single-keystroke way to move list items up and down. Unless I'm co
I can't prove that anybody is happier, really, and attraction is entirely subjective. For all I know they were run off by the "invalid header" error^invalidheader and never even tried it out, but Mark
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I love ScreenSteps, the app from Blue Mango which makes creating documentation for screen-based applications as fast and easy as making documentation can possibly be. It's a little clunky sometimes, b
It may come as a surprise to some (many), but I've never really made effective use of TextExpander on my iPad or iPhone (TextExpander touch). I don't do a lot of the things on my iPad which I do on my
I was featured on MacSparky.com today. Well, the home screen of my iPhone was, anyway. He mentioned a project of mine that I haven't actually had time to blog about yet, so here's a quick introduction
A small update to fix a few problems I consider critical while I work on larger features. The big two changes are:
After a few late nights of off-hours programming, I'm putting Notational Velocity ALT out as a version 1.0. Obviously built on the backs of others, I'm just giving it a versioning scheme of its own to
As usual with projects I didn't plan to take as far as I did, my version numbering scheme is, well, stupid. With the next release I'm going to implement my own feed for automatic updates, so I'll prob
Read More…Updated: the download link on this page now goes to the fourth revision, more information here.
After my experiment last night, and finding DivineDominion's already-awesome fork of Notational Velocit
I'm going to have to build a project page for this, and probably set up a separate Sparkle feed for updates on this fork. I had a few minutes while eating my peanut butter and jelly, so I'm posting a
Markdown QuickTags, my WordPress plugin which adds extensive Markdown features to the HTML editor, has been upped to 0.7. The download link has actually been incrementing for the last week, but this i
Introducing Markdown Quicktags, a new WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers! If you edit your blog in Markdown, whether you publish that way or not, this plugin will make your life almost 37% better. I
You may have cause, at some point, to modify the behavior of the QuickTags in the HTML editor of WordPress (the non-WYSIWYG, non-"Visual" editor). There are a lot of tutorials available for editing th
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I recently wrote a tiny web app called PromptDown to let me drop in some Markdown (or plain text) and use it as a teleprompter for screencast voiceovers. I wasn't going to put any more time into it, a
Be sure to check out version 2, with iOS support (iPhone/iPad)!
Here's my stupid trick of the day: a Markdown teleprompter called PromptDown (I see what you did there...). The idea was to create a
Read More…Amidst trying to get ready to launch a major website and playing with my own personal projects, I realized three things today. How important they are is debatable, and their usefulness depends entirel
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I've just started using MarsEdit^MarsEdit again (in combination with my TextMate^TextMate blogging bundles), but I've run into a couple of issues. First, I can't assign thumbnails to my posts directly
Update: If you're looking for a Markdown -> Evernote, check this out.
Another post, quickly and with less explanation...
The fact that Evernote processes HTML so much better than it does plain or ri