Resources

Pandoc

• Pandoc
• Pandoc with GitHub Actions

Markdown Tutorials

• CommonMark 10 minute Markdown Tutorial
• Markdown Guide
• GitHub Guide Mastering Markdown
• Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown

Markdown Reference

Quick:

• CommonMark Markdown in 60 seconds
• GitHub markdown flavor can be used any where on GitHub and in Jekyll.
• Markdown in a Minute

Spec:

• Markdown (original spec Daring Fireball / John Gruber)
• CommonMark
• kramdown (the Ruby markdown parser used by Jekyll)

Markdown Tools

• Web app editors:
  • Dillinger (sync with cloud services, collaborate, comments, LaTeX Math, UML diagrams, ABC notation for music)
  • StackEdit (sync with cloud services, collaborate, comments, LaTeX Math, UML diagrams, ABC notation for music)
  • HackMD Markdown realtime collaboration platform (self-hosted open source version CodiMD)
• Note taking: Notable, Simplenote, Boost Note, Standardnotes, Joplin
• Visual editors: stand alone desktop apps with familiar GUI interface and builtin output options
  • Zettlr (academic oriented, with Zotero support, spellcheck, docs)
  • Mark Text, Remarkable, ghostwriter, Typora (oriented towards writers)
• Libraries: the Demo editor uses markdown-it library to render Markdown using JS.

Git & GitHub

Git is the most popular version control system, and works great to track Markdown writing projects. GitHub is a popular web service for hosting Git repositories–with benefits! It provides a handy web interface for editing and collaborating on repos, as well as, built in project management features and free static web hosting powered by Jekyll. Accounts are free. To learn more check out Hello World on GitHub Guides or GitHub Training.