Markdown for everyone

I really love Markdown. It’s simple, fast and powerful. I’m trying to use it everywhere.

Evernote and markdown

Many years I was trying to use Evernote as my own knowledge base. After some weeks copy-pasting from different web sites my notes turned to a mess.

Marxico - the best markdown editor I found which allows to sync notes with Evernote. If you have a lot of code in your notes you need something like Marxico to make your notes more structured and pretty.

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But Marxico has some minuses as well:

  1. it’s not free. Year subscription costs $24.99 USD.
  2. You cannot edit your posts in the Evernote directly. You still have to use Marxico to edit your posts.

Blogging with markdown

Markdown can also help you to blog easily. This post is written with Stackedit.
Just type simple plain text in markdown, import it to Blogger in one click and you will get pretty html post in your blog.
It’s very similar to Marxico but it doesn’t have Evernote integration. On the other hand Stackedit is well integrated with:

  • Blogger
  • Google Drive
  • Gist
  • GitHub
  • Tumblr
  • Wordpress

Honestly, I’m using it less than a hour. This is my first post. If you can see it then it works well (:

And Yes, Stackedit can highlight your code well:

  def to_boolean
    self.downcase == 'true'
  end

To enable this beautiful code highlight just add following code to your HTML page template after <head> tag:

<script src="https://c328740.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js?lang=tex&amp;skin=sunburst">
</script>

Tip: You can notice that port style in Blogger has some differences to StackEdit. It’s also possible to enable StackEdit styles in Blogger.
Insert following code after <head> tag:

 <link href='https://stackedit.io/res-min/themes/base.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
    <link href='//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
    <link href='http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/8.2/styles/default.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
    <script src='http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/8.2/highlight.min.js'/>

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