Long-form essays and hands-on comparisons from the team building mdclaudy. No SEO mush.
A plain-text language invented in 2004 that now quietly underwrites ChatGPT, Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Discord. Here's what it is, and why it won.
Six browser-based markdown editors, side by side. Live preview, autosave, export, AI — what's worth opening a new tab for and what isn't.
Notion is a beautiful editor that exports an ugly PDF. The reason is structural — and so is the fix.
Two languages, one job: structured text for the web. The difference is what they ask of you, and what they let you do back.
Five questions that decide which export wins. Word for review and edit, PDF for final and designed — and the workflow that lets you ship both from one markdown source.
RTF still rules in legal e-filing, government intake portals, and ancient CMS boxes. Here’s how to get markdown out the door as .rtf, and why anyone still cares.
Slides from markdown — without learning a deck tool. The slide syntax in five minutes, the export options in plain English.
Most free markdown-to-PDF converters stamp a watermark on the export. Five that don't — and the catches that come with each one.
Eight methods, one .md file, eight very different PDFs. The honest comparison nobody else publishes — with the commands, the trade-offs, and the templates.
The fastest way to turn a thought into a shareable image. Markdown in, themed PNG out — sized for whichever feed it’s heading into.
Three rendering engines. One clean output. Everything a developer needs to convert markdown to HTML without surprises.
Markdown to EPUB is the indie author's quietest superpower. Chapters as files, one command, a book on Apple Books by sundown.
Pipes and dashes, mostly. But the details of alignment, escaping, and multi-line cells are where most writers slip — so here's all of it, in one document.
Fifteen typeset presets for a single markdown source. Sales proposal, research report, manuscript, résumé — every page styled, none of them touched by Pandoc.
Eight bugs that turn a clean markdown file into a broken PDF — diagnosed, and fixed. Tables, page breaks, fonts, math, and the rest.
A writer-shaped tour of every serious markdown editor in 2026 — chosen for the page you hand in, not the syntax cheat sheet.
Five working methods, walked through end-to-end. The one we’d pick depends on whether you have a CLI, a browser, or a deadline at 5pm.
A new category is forming. Six editors, six approaches to AI in markdown — ranked honestly, with the conflict of interest declared up top.
A hands-on comparison after forty hours of writing in every one of them. Verdicts that don't waffle, and a transparent disclosure: yes, one of them is us.