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Title: Four text skills every Mac user should have in 2015 Post by: HCK on January 06, 2015, 09:00:17 am Four text skills every Mac user should have in 2015
<article> <section class="page"> <p>The new year is upon us. Although I’m not much for resolutions (with the occasional exception (http://www.macworld.com/article/2082570/seven-new-years-resolutions-for-the-mac-home-office.html)), this is a time when many people dedicate themselves to improving their lives over the coming months. If you’re casting about for resolutions that can boost your productivity, I’d like to suggest learning (or brushing up on) four key skills. They all involve working with text and each of them will benefit almost any Mac user (and, for that matter, almost any computer user, period).</p><h2>Write in Markdown</h2> <p>If your work involves writing of almost any kind—blog posts, articles, books, or even academic papers—a couple of hours spent learning the basics of Markdown will pay huge dividends. Many major publications (including Macworld) and blogging platforms (including WordPress) support this powerful yet lightweight method of text formatting. You mark up plain text files using simple tags (which are much friendlier and more readable than HTML), and then a behind-the-scenes converter can render that text as a fully formatted document in HTML, PDF, EPUB, or other format.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2864499/four-text-skills-every-mac-user-should-have-in-2015.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Four text skills every Mac user should have in 2015 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2864499/four-text-skills-every-mac-user-should-have-in-2015.html#tk.rss_all) |