Markdown is a way to write something and format it. Think of markdown, like Microsoft word's .docx format, but much much better. The file extension is .md instead of .docx.
Think of every time that you had to make a text in a word document, bold, and it ended up looking weird. Think of every time that you had to read a .docx file, and had to download a couple of GBs of Microsoft softwares, install them, and ended up looking at something that was dissimilar to what anyone else could read. In markdown, you don't have to deal with that bullshit.
Markdown is like a .txt. So almost anything can open it. And there are apps and softwares that can make them look better.
Actually the notes that you are reading is in the markdown format.So for example if I want to make a text bold, I don't have to find the bold button, select my text, hit the bold button and hope the gods of word document that the bold button works and there is no weird formatting conflicts going back there.
Instead I just put ** on both sides of the words I want to make bold. For example **This is a bold text** will look like this: This is a bold text.
Because markdown is extremely popular, there are endless resources to learn markdown. I will give introduce some examples, but you can just search markdown tutorial in any language you like, and there will be a ton of articles about it.
- Here is a is a cheatsheet.
- Here is a full tutorial
Literally any text editor will work. (including Microsoft notepad). But here is my recommendation:
- For a few files, try typora.
- If you are planning to take notes in your computer, smartphone or anything like that, try obsidian.md.
- For a few files, try Markor. It will look ugly, but has a lot of powerful features.
- If you are planning to take notes in your computer, smartphone or anything like that, try obsidian.md.
I'm not familiar with Apple's ecosystem. But I know obsidian.md has an iPhone app.
If you have good suggestions, please contact me.