In an extraordinary attempt to procrastinate doing my actual thesis, I've actually learned VIM, Markdown, and VimWiki, and now here I am planning to write it all in VIM.

Markdown is awesome I have done almost all my writing for years in Markdown for much the reasons you cited. I was tired of all sorts of proprietary formats that got out of fashion or that I could no longer read. I use Markdown for blogs, personal notes, book writing, etc. I think the only thing that I wish was better was that there was a more universal standard for putting captions in images. I think people who are still stuck on using MS Word and its ilk are really missing out. Markdown just gives so much flexibility in tool usage. I got hooked using Ulysses, but now I am using iA Writer. But then there is Bear, Typora and many other which are just so much better than typical Word processors at organizing, tagging and grouping your writing and later find back what you have written.

Compared to the last video on this exact aspect of markdown, you did an excellent job and painted a very clear picture of how useful markdown can be for me. I need details like that. So many people in life skip the details.

This dude really know how to teach

I keep coming back to this video. I find it strangely relaxing. Thanks to this video, I wrote all my university assignments in Markdown.

Well done! Love it when I see high quality videos on YT. Congratulations and thank you.

Thanks very much. I was looking for a something like this. I am an IT administrator and work on servers a lot that do not have any wordprocessing software, other than Wordpad for RTF and wanted to start note taking that would work across platforms as I am now getting involved in Linux. And I stumbled across this video while exploring an app called Joplin. I do believe this is exactly what I need. Thank you very much

The best video on markdown, I have seen dozens and know it. 🔥🔥🔥

This channel does a great service to the academic community. Kudos and thank you!

Crisp and clear. Thank you !

Nice, succinct presentation. I'm investigating using Jinja to generate Markdown + LaTeX.

Must appreciate your teaching technique... whole content is up to the point.. Thank you !!!

This is such a great video. Despite the fact that im totally overwhelmed by markdown and its simplicity, you've just got the right way to give your audience enough information without taking too long to get on point. Keep your great work on!

Great introductory video on Markdown - simple and logical - thank you!

A better markdown for ordered lists is: 1. Loren ipsum 1. Dolor sit This sintax makes it easier to reorder items. Thanks for the footnotes and refences sintax.

> maybe you just don't wanna pay Microsoft for the license. Exactly my reason.

Very good explanation

It was really helpful. Thanks.

I saved this video as a good example of presentation. Thanks!

Very good video, thank you very much! I am slowly switching to mark down, trying different apps (Obsidian, Joplin), but I´ll have a look at Pandoc as well!

Hello, seems I am four years late. Great piece on using Markdown, but could you do a video on using it to write blogs and articles? Thanks.

Very clear explanation, thank you!

An excellent, precise demonstration. Thank you.

The thing is that there are also lots of competing markdown standards. Of course it's not nearly as big of a problem as the competing standards elsewhere, but I still think it's worth a mention.

Thanks for sharing! You just saved me hours of work...

Thank you for sharing this incredible presentation for academic writing with Markdown. Time for me to download this application on my system.

Amazing video! Clear and simple explanation! I subscribe now! Greetings from Mexico City.

Thank you. (: Your video made it easy to understand or get a better idea of what markdown is, and it seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.

One/two advantages of having the text as pure markdown code: It's dead simple and efficient, to do a diff between two versions and hence it is well suited for tools like Git, to archive the code and track modifications.

Thank you very much for the class!

Thank you for sharing.

Footnote is such a pain for Markdown. You have to manually manage the name/number of all the footnotes. Microsoft Word and Google Docs do it automatically.

Excellent presentation style

And that's about it. Page numbers, book collaboration, adjustments to margens, fonts, layout and math equations And you are better off with a Tex document. +20 years of culture and improvements for such a relic syntax. It's quite useful for relatively small or webpages like documentation. Nevertheless you get a thumbs up.

Hello, nice to see your all videos explained it in simple and best way. But, I am using Windows OS, so can you help me in this matter?

It’s clearly explanation, thank so much. But how to print and setup the layout?

Thank you Dr.Nicholas, Grate as usual.

Thanks for sharing! It's very helpful to me!

Thank you for a great lecture on R Markdown!

fantastic speech explanations i like very much

would you do some videos about asciidoc? it's far superior to any type of markdown, and it's as simple.

where did the data for the citation come from?

In Joplin, that % sign idea isn't working and I've seen it mentioned nowhere else. Is that only for Pandoc?

in 7:14, may I ask how to add text to every row?

Well done! and good video!

How to do cross reference of numbered item, figures and table. Any time I insert a new number, or figure,or table it auto update ?

Can we use Markdown integrated with Zotero?

Amazing !

A problem that I always have with these side-by-side markdown editors is: they never line up. They work okay for a small amount of data, but for a long page, especially if there are images, the idea seems to fall apart. If you are not seeing on one side what you are typing on the other, what's the point? I suppose you can mess with finding words, or constantly adjusting the sidebars, but that is just more trouble than it's worth.

Great explanation. I co-edit an open access academic journal called Asian Ethnology. At the moment, all authors submit work in Word, we edit that, and then import into InDesign to publish PDFs (for print and download). But we're about to launch a new website with all new material also available online. I really want to do what you are showing here - it would be great if the authors would also use Markdown but I'm I'm afraid many won't. I've tried the online Word to Markdown converter, but I'm wondering if there's a less clunky way of doing it (so that the Markdown document doesn't get filled with various Word junk). So I'm considering how to resolve the workflow issues. If you've got any tips, I'd love to hear them. But this is the clearest explanation of Markdown for academic writing I've seen so far. Thank you.

Hey, thank you very much for the video! Can I change the citation style using RMarkdown? My Country/University has its own citation rules, and I am pretty sure some people already created a citation style to Latex. So how can I use it to RMarkdown?

You have some great visual presentation in this video! What do you use to make the slides, as well as embedding your webcam in it?

Hi, Nic i am just a beginner i get everything what u says..But how do i get this sheet to write the program. please help..

excellent vid, thx

Besides the content, I like the way you did this video :) How did you do it? I mean the combination of slides and video like you to in the first part.

this is really good instruction

Clear. Thank you.

How do you write equations ?

Man, you are just amazing

This is awesome :)

very informative video, can you guide me how to put caption and label in images in typora?

Thank you so much for this informative video. Short and precise. I was thinking to write my master thesis in r-markdown as well. Now I am wondering, if there is any chance, that the tables and figures get numbered automatically like in Word. Or in general, is there any supporting website, you can recommend, where you will get answers in a timely manner? Thank you in advance for your help. Greetings from Germany.

Would you recommend markdown over Latex? I'm currently using Bibtex/Jabref to manage my bibliography, so I wonder if markdown can support bibtex citations

Do you recommend for Math writing, and statistical equations and research findings with graphs?

Hi. Great video. What is the software you use in your video to show the text on the screen? Thanks.

easy to work with the version control like git

is latex a sort of markdown language?

which editor would you recommend using?

Noice! My only issue is that I feel your description for pandoc markdown would better describe lightweight markup languages in general. Secondly, have you heard of org-mode markup for emacs? It is what I write most of my schoolwork in these days and is pretty intuitive.

Great video. I'm glad more professionals are standardizing on Markdown, I found it recently and love it. Just a little technical note: the audio is very low at certain parts of the video, do you think you could try playing with the audio gain for the video?

In Jupyter notebook the % Title and [^note] does not work. Why?

Great. Thanks.

Great tutorial. Which editor are you using here? I like that it immediately displays HTML.

how do we make a table of content with link to heading or a index

Percentage does not work for me.

Thanks for the tips. I didn't find any clues for command line users though. Got stuck with pandoc-citeproc. Get an error every time I try to make reference to a my bib file.

Hi Nicholas, I wonder if you have plan to write tutorials on the version control system for academic writing. Actually one of my motives to learn markdown language is that I want to learn to use Git to control the versions of writing. Thanks a lot!

What GUI is this?

What editor where you using?

Nice review, but don´t understand how you cited. I need this for my papers but it does not work.

Help me

how can we get the citation keys. I want some brief on this !

Fórmulas? academics don't use formulas?

The power of plain text

Very cool. It'd be nice if it were not so MAC-centric... Though, I've been able to do what you do with Wondows 10 tools by using Notepad++ and Windows Powershell. Great job Nicholas!

Is it possible to include images?

Dear Sir, Very useful video for me who has just started to learn writing in markdown. I really want to understand on minute: 9:26 in the video, I tried to type citation but it just don't show up instantly on the preview side. Please explain how to do that. Thank you.

What do you mean Apple Pages is gone?

Just discovered #pandoc today but didn't know that markdowns could be a future-proofing technology. My Office 365 subscription just ended and I needed to find a better (free) way to convert back and forth from Word .doc/.docx files to PDFs. Looks like pandoc might do it. Great run-though

Is it possible to create a table in discord ? + thanks for your great videos I'Ve learned a lot of it!

Ca you please suggest me in adding a local text file in markdown

This is some hardcore stuff. Why don't use google doc?