![]() ![]() I could see myself using Dillinger to create a markdown document for a readme file. I wasn’t familiar with Markdown before this, and like others, I found the tutorial to be very helpful. I can also foresee how it might be possible create reg ex macros in Notepad++ to convert plain notes to markdown. As a somewhat ‘guess-and-check’ learner, I appreciate the flexibility offered by both tools of being able to experiment and see what does/doesn’t work in real-time. Regular expressions also comes into play in the Notepad++ environment. Working in Dillinger reminded me of one of my favorite web-tools that I used to learn regular expressions,. It’s easy to envision how my basic Notepad++ note-taking could incorporate a handful of markdown elements, thereby still providing the low-frills environment I want to work in, while still allowing for easy export to a more aesthetically-pleasing form. I appreciate the ease of use offered by Notepad++, and avoid wrestling with formatting options offered by commercial word processors whenever possible. ![]() On their own, they aren’t much to look at, but, with a little finessing in Dillinger it was easy to see how my plain document could be organized in a way much more likely to make sense to a reader who isn’t me. Dillinger was a lot of fun to use! I experimented using lecture notes I had drafted in Notepad++.
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