I love to tell you about cool, new apps and then teach you how to use them. But there’s a classic macOS app that never gets any coverage — TextEdit. You may think you need a big-girl word processor like Word, Pages, LibreOffice, or even Google Docs. But after I go through all of the […]
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Exploring Markdown Export from Notes
I’m a big fan of Markdown, the markup language invented by John Gruber. If you’re not familiar with it, the idea of Markdown is that you can write in plain text, but still produce a nicely formatted document. Instead of using clumsy menu pics to format your text, you use this little markup language. It’s […]
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Even More Sindre Sorhus Apps — ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial
A few months ago, I created a ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial about three apps from the prolific developer Sindre Sorhus. I taught how to use Dato, Aiko, and Velja. I’m back with four more small but powerful apps from Sindre. Plain Text Editor for Mac, iPad, and iPhone gives you a place to get your thoughts down […]
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Replacing Ulysses with Bear
MarsEdit is My Blogging Platform I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use the awesome blogging tool for the Mac, MarsEdit from Red Sweater Software. Every blog post you read has come from MarsEdit. MarsEdit lets me write in the plain text language Markdown, or I can write in HTML, or I can mix […]
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