If you regularly write for multiple formats, such as print and the web, or if you just want a way to keep writing without being distracted by fiddling with formatting, Markdown is an excellent tool for that job. Jason’s post from last January links to lots of ProfHacker pieces on Markdown in its first paragrah. Is use to love but don't open it anymore (except for comparison with other tools).We have written quite a lot at ProfHacker about Markdown, a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document-headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.-using simple typographic characters. It will end that only nostalgic will use it, since it become not compatible with the last evolution on the OS.

Others become diary on journal tools (MWeb again, or but-now-only-subscription model DayOne), or try to be full writing tool like the veteran iA Writer, ByWord, or the complete-but-now-only-subscription model Ulysses, but also the new FOSS complete Zettlr. Some go to be notes apps (libke Bear, MWeb, which is one of my favorites, but quite expensive, FSNotes, or the open source Joplin, Notable Boostnote). Though, it's still lightweight, functional, with good feature (themable, fully markdown support, support of TOC, shell plugin, neat keystrokes, multiple views, tab bar, …), which made it really a complete tool, the market of markdown editors really evolved, and neither paid nor free or FOSS apps are now competing.

Macdown was a very helpful alternative to Mou when Chen Luo abandonned it, but it seems that uranusjr abandonned Macdown too.

Macdown convert