Markdown is a “lightweight markup language for applying formatting using plain text.” Google Docs already recognizes some Markdown syntax, and is now expanding its support. In addition to * or – for ...

Inspired in part by setext, the lightweight markup language designed for TidBITS in 1992, John Gruber’s Markdown revolutionized the way people write for the Web a dozen years later. Writers were freed ...

As someone who has been around the tech block a few times, I've seen my fair share of things that purport to make life a bit more efficient. Sometimes those things pan out, and other times, not so ...