Notion vs Markdown: the honest comparison
"Notion vs Obsidian" is the wrong framing — that's app vs app. The real comparison is app vs stack: can a markdown setup give you what Notion gives…
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The Markdown Database Pattern
Your filesystem is already a database. Most tools just don't treat it that way. That's the core idea behind the Markdown Database Pattern — written…
Embed Charts in Markdown Without Chart.js: SVG, Data URIs, and What Actually Works
Markdown is great until you want a real chart in a README or docs site. Most people reach for a screenshot, a hosted PNG, or a heavy client library.…
Which Markdown editor to choose
Disclosure: I work on Notula, which is the last section of this article. Everything before it is about the category. A WYSIWYG Markdown editor hides…
Ryker: In-Browser Visual Editor for HTML and Markdown with agent-ready change exports
HTML has become an increasingly useful format for working with large language models. Models can generate complete HTML documents very quickly, but…
Github Project Workflow: Local Folder - Github
Introduction The world, as we know it, is changing and data is at the center of it all. As a beginner at LuxdevHq , I will cover Git and Github , ho…
I built a Markdown editor under 10MB because Obsidian felt too heavy
I love writing in Markdown. What I don't love is opening a 200MB+ Electron app just to jot down a note. So I built Markify - a desktop Markdown edit…
Why I Built a 100% In-Browser, Privacy-First Markdown Converter
Working with Markdown is great—it is the universal lingua franca for READMEs, technical documentation, static site generators, and now LLM prompt co…
How to Build a "Second Brain" with Obsidian That Your AI Agent Can Read, Without Building a Custom RAG Pipeline
Ever run into this? You wrote a detailed technical spec three months ago, and today someone asks "how did we design this module again?" You end up s…
Turning your Obsidian notes into a queryable database with Dataview
If you take notes in Obsidian, you've probably hit the same wall: search finds text, but it can't answer "show me every snippet I've tagged regex "…
Markdown Tricks for Cleaner Docs
Markdown Tricks for Cleaner Docs Markdown is everywhere: READMEs, docs, comments, even this very post. But most people stick to the basics: headings…
md to html without uploading your files: a browser-based converter that doesn't choke on Mermaid or KaTeX
Every few weeks I need to hand a Markdown document to someone who doesn't live in a text editor. A README for a client, meeting notes, a short spec…
GFM vs CommonMark vs Pandoc Markdown: Syntax Compared
Markdown looks like one language until the same file renders differently on GitHub, Hugo, Obsidian, or Pandoc. And the problem is not that Markdown…
Markdown Tricks for Cleaner Docs
Markdown Tricks for Cleaner Docs I've written a lot of documentation over the years, and I've learned that Markdown is more powerful than most peopl…
Structured authoring without XML - how it works
What is structured authoring? Structured authoring means writing content as reusable, semantic building blocks instead of free-form documents. The i…
How Losing My Typora License Led to Building My Own Markdown Editor
How Losing My Typora License Led to Building My Own Markdown Editor Introduction For years, Typora has been my go-to Markdown editor — it’s affordab…
How NoteGen handles sync queues and conflicts in a local-first Markdown app
codexu/note-gen is an open-source, local-first Markdown note-taking app. Notes live as regular files in the user's workspace. GitHub, Gitee, GitLab,…
Your LLM Writes \(x\), Your Markdown Parser Wants $x$
TL;DR — LLMs love \(...\) and \[...\] . Most Markdown math plugins only speak $...$ and $$...$$ . I tried to bridge that with a regex, failed in int…
How I Built an NDA-Safe CSV to Markdown Converter (100% Client-Side)
If you write documentation on GitHub, GitLab, or use Obsidian, you deal with Markdown tables. And you know they are a pain to write by hand. The Hac…
Markdown Tricks for Cleaner Docs
Markdown Tricks for Cleaner Docs I write a lot of documentation. Over the years, I've picked up a handful of Markdown tricks that make my docs clean…
Markdown Studio - a browser-based HTML-to-Markdown converter
Hi - I built a small browser-based project called MD Studio: mdstudio.dev It started as a personal project to help me learn AI-assisted web developm…
I Built a Durable AI Knowledge Base with Markdown and Git
Why search alone does not create memory—and how source layers, agent rules, and deterministic checks keep a knowledge base useful over time My AI kn…
Your repo should be the source of truth, not the platform
Here is a principle I keep coming back to: the canonical version of everything I write should live in a git repo I control, in plain markdown, not l…
Why I Created Moji to Open Markdown Files Like PDFs
Moji was born from a simple need: to open a Markdown file with the same convenience as opening a PDF. Double-click the file, view the fully formatte…
Why I built a mind-mapping tool where Markdown is the actual file format
Most mind-mapping tools treat Markdown as an export option — something you get out at the end, one-way. I wanted the opposite: I wanted my mind map…
Markdown to HTML: The Fastest Way to Convert Markdown Online
Markdown to HTML: The Fastest Way to Convert Markdown Online Markdown is one of the easiest ways to write documentation, blog posts, README files, a…
Stop retyping your API. Turn cURL into docs instantly.
Here's an absurd thing I did for years. I'd test an endpoint with a cURL command. It worked. Then, to document it, I'd open a Markdown file and rety…
5 Markdown Tricks That Make Your README Stand Out
I've reviewed hundreds of GitHub READMEs while contributing to open source, and the difference between a forgettable one and one that makes people s…
# Introducing MDConvertHub: Free Browser-Based Markdown Tools for Developers
Introducing MDConvertHub: Free Browser-Based Markdown Tools for Developers Markdown has become the standard for writing README files, project docume…
Parsing markdown tables in 20 lines (because remark was overkill)
On Hacé Cuentas (hacecuentas.com) I render 1,200+ pages of user-facing explanation text from JSON content. Every page has at least one markdown tabl…