There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

Many of my recent posts have focused on how I’ve increasingly turned to Markdown for my writing, syllabus design, project and class websites, and for teaching literate programming. For those ...

' Markwhen ' is a system that allows you to create schedules using a markdown-like syntax and display them in timeline or calendar format. In general calendar apps, you have to click buttons one by ...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in plaintext, and the Word was in plaintext because plaintext was the Way. It was good. On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born.