There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

Documentation tools mdBook, Quartz, MkDoc, and HonKit all support Markdown and work with a variety of other languages and formats. Here's a quick guide to each tool's standout features and best uses.

R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R code, and the results of R code in a single document. And when that document is rendered as HTML, you ...

The intersection of tasks and notes poses an interesting problem. Often, a task requires notes for context and details that can’t be captured with a single line of text. Likewise, notes very often ...