benschmidt.org VS.

statisticbrain.com

Like many technically inclined historians (for instance, Caleb McDaniel, Jason Heppler, and Lincoln Mullen) I find that I’ve increasingly been using the plain-text format Markdown for almost all of my writing. The core idea of Markdown is that rather than use Microsoft Word, Scrivener, or any of the other pretty-looking tools out there, you type in “plain text” using formatting conventions that should be familiar to anyone who’s ever written or read an e-mail.