1. are you a coding monkey?
2. do you like to blog?
3. do you have an ocr disorder for keeping things organized?
4. do you swear by simplicity and all that zen

answering yes to any of the above means you most definitely have to check Markdown by John Gruber of Daring Fireball. markdown is basically a method of writing text or what geeks like to call a markup language. writing in markup becomes almost natural once you get used to the syntax. the advantage here is even if you have to pass this text to someone who has no clue about markdown, he can easily understand the text. the biggest feature though is instant conversion to html.

i’m writing all my .txt files now completely in the markdown script. should i want to convert any of my random notes to a blog post, simply use the converter and i have ready-made html for my blog. HUGE amount of time saved in pesky html tags and formatting. yeah!

Ψ