Markdown - the advantage and afterall why?

[ChrisUpchurch]

@JohnAtl

I’ve been hearing the siren song of iA Writer , especially the by-sentence focus mode. (Like I need another app.)

You do need another app.

Trying iA Writer

In the past few years, I’d been doing most of my writing in a combination of Bear and Ulysses. Bear for note taking and shorter form stuff; Ulysses for long-form writing. Both these apps worked well for me individually, but even though I had drawn a pretty clear line between them having two different writing environments did introduce a bit of friction. There are also a few things about Ulysses in particular that rubbed me the wrong way. I dislike the non-standard way it handles Markdown lin…