![]() I think it would make a lot of sense to use Markdown for this kind of documentation, for a few reasons: the flexibility of publishing in different formats (such as a PDF or a slide deck) from one source document would make it easy for me to share the workflow with different audiences the use of internal linking would make it easier to create new versions when there is an update and the ability to visually spruce up a. WYSIWYG controls StackEdit provides very handy formatting buttons and shortcuts, thanks to PageDown, the WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor used by Stack Overflow. The refined text formatting of the editor helps you visualize the final rendering of your files. After going through the module on open workflows, I have a better vocabulary and tool set for approaching this in the future. Rich Markdown editor StackEdit’s Markdown syntax highlighting is unique. In a project that I recently handed off, I documented the workflows in a Google doc, but did so more out of an intuition that the information should be documented for future contributors than to adhere to an open workflow practice. I could see myself using Dillinger to create a markdown document for a readme file. I wasn’t familiar with Markdown before this, and like others, I found the tutorial to be very helpful. ![]() I can also foresee how it might be possible create reg ex macros in Notepad++ to convert plain notes to markdown. As a somewhat ‘guess-and-check’ learner, I appreciate the flexibility offered by both tools of being able to experiment and see what does/doesn’t work in real-time. Regular expressions also comes into play in the Notepad++ environment. ![]() Working in Dillinger reminded me of one of my favorite web-tools that I used to learn regular expressions,. It’s easy to envision how my basic Notepad++ note-taking could incorporate a handful of markdown elements, thereby still providing the low-frills environment I want to work in, while still allowing for easy export to a more aesthetically-pleasing form. I appreciate the ease of use offered by Notepad++, and avoid wrestling with formatting options offered by commercial word processors whenever possible. On their own, they aren’t much to look at, but, with a little finessing in Dillinger it was easy to see how my plain document could be organized in a way much more likely to make sense to a reader who isn’t me. Dillinger was a lot of fun to use! I experimented using lecture notes I had drafted in Notepad++. ![]()
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