Great beginner friendly post! It might be a good idea to share it outside DEV to reach non programmers as well. 🙂
It made me wonder if there's any GUI based application or service for writing books and articles that's using git and Markdown in the background for VC and formatting. Feels like a quite good fit for managing versioned text-focused content. Or I guess that's maybe Gitbook.com I'm describing 😛
I believe the closest you get might be gitbook.com. But personally I believe it feels a bit too focused on technical documentation. I'd like to see something with a cleaner and slightly different UI and an application structure that's aimed towards more general writing and not only digital content. I don't know of anything like that though.
I use Clarify It and it’s great for writing help files and tutorial articles. You can save it as a clarify document, but export it to PDF, Markdown, or HTML.
I create web applications, music, books, technical articles, and I help people become software developers. I am currently the Director of Education at Temporal.io.
Clarify is fantastic, but they stopped maintaining it and have moved on to a different business-focused product (clarify-it.com/blog/the-future-of-...). And if you're on macOS it won't work on the latest OS since they never made a 64-bit app. I really hope someone writes a new version of that tool because it is indeed fantastic.
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Great beginner friendly post! It might be a good idea to share it outside DEV to reach non programmers as well. 🙂
It made me wonder if there's any GUI based application or service for writing books and articles that's using git and Markdown in the background for VC and formatting. Feels like a quite good fit for managing versioned text-focused content. Or I guess that's maybe Gitbook.com I'm describing 😛
Hi! If there is such a tool, I'm interested in knowing it!
I believe the closest you get might be gitbook.com. But personally I believe it feels a bit too focused on technical documentation. I'd like to see something with a cleaner and slightly different UI and an application structure that's aimed towards more general writing and not only digital content. I don't know of anything like that though.
There's also leanpub.com/
Although they focus more on publishing, they do support an online editor.
I use Clarify It and it’s great for writing help files and tutorial articles. You can save it as a clarify document, but export it to PDF, Markdown, or HTML.
Clarify is fantastic, but they stopped maintaining it and have moved on to a different business-focused product (clarify-it.com/blog/the-future-of-...). And if you're on macOS it won't work on the latest OS since they never made a 64-bit app. I really hope someone writes a new version of that tool because it is indeed fantastic.