This simple trick will forever change the way you format digital notes

Jack Wallen/ZDNET As someone who has been around the tech block a few times, I've seen my fair share of things that purport to make life a bit more efficient. Sometimes those things pan out, and other times, not so much. But there's one bit of technology that came about in 2004 that has made things easy… for those who know about it and how to use it. That bit is called markdown, and it's a lightweight markup language. Also: The 4 best MacOS text editors (and why you should be using one) Markup is all about adding special annotations or codes to plain text to convey additional information about the content. The types of markup include: Text formatting: Bold, italic, strikethrough, etc. Headings and titles: H1-H6 levels for headings, bold or italics for titles Lists: Ordered or unordered lists with bullet points or numbers Links and URLs: Hyperlinks to websites or documents Images and media: Embedding images, videos, audio files, etc. What is markdown? Markdown allows you to ... Read full article.