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title: “Markdown: First Thoughts”
author: “David Rabinowicz”
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Markdown: First Thoughts

David Rabinowicz

Writing in Macdown will be an interesting experiment. Continuing to use Macdown (or another Mac-compatible Markdown app) for my writing outside of Technologies of Text will likely alter (perhaps even drastically so) the way that I write.

Affordances:

• No need to focus on formatting until necessary (or until desired)
• Ability to standardize formatting for longer papers more easily than with, for example, Microsoft Word

Limitations:

• My writing process involves leaving notes for myself, which might be tricky to keep track of with the two displays in Macdown