Format text with Markdown

Markdown can be used when you need to easily format (lightweight) plain text without using your mouse and using software like Microsoft Word. It is great for easily formatting notes and to-do lists or for creating HTML-pages (after converting the Markdown document to HTML format with e.g. Pandoc.

Read this post on Lifehacker for more information about it.

Here are a few tools or editors that support Markdown:

• Pandoc (convert files from one format to another)
• StackEdit
• Hashify
• WriteMonkey
• ResophNotes