An Introduction to Markdown
This past February, I was putting together a proposal for the 2022 Distance Teaching & Learning (DT&L) Conference, and I shared my draft with a couple of my colleagues for feedback. Typically, when requesting feedback, our team relies on Google Docs, which has a nice feature set for suggesting edits. However, I was not using Google Docs. I explained that they would be viewing my formatted document on HackMD, a collaborative web-based Markdown tool. One of the colleagues I had asked for feedback responded: What are the pros and cons compared to a google doc, may I ask? That question inspired this blog post. What is Markdown? Markdown is a plain text format with a simple syntax to add formatting … An Introduction to Markdown
