Markdown Here

by Adam Pritchard

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Quick Look

Markdown Here revolutionizes email composition by allowing users to write in Markdown and render it beautifully, supporting syntax highlighting and TeX formulae.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Individuals who prefer writing in Markdown for emails, especially programmers and mathematicians, looking for a seamless way to format and send their messages.

Key Features

→ Write emails in Markdown
→ Render emails to HTML with one click
→ Supports syntax highlighting for code
→ Renders TeX formulae
→ Works with multiple email clients and platforms

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mostly Positive

Users find Markdown Here highly useful for composing formatted emails, particularly appreciating its Markdown support, code highlighting, and cross-platform compatibility, though some mention occasional glitches.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.

What Users Love

✓ Easy to write and format emails using Markdown.
✓ Excellent for code snippets with syntax highlighting.
✓ Works across various email clients and web services.

Points to Consider

× Some users report occasional minor bugs or rendering issues.
× The toggling feature can be slightly unintuitive at first.

Official Description

From the Developer

Write your email in Markdown, then make it pretty.

Markdown Here lets you write email in Markdown and render it (make it pretty!) before sending.

This is great for anyone who doesn't like fiddling around with formatting buttons while writing an email. It's especially good for programmers who write email with code in them -- it even supports syntax highlighting. And for the mathematicians among us: Markdown Here will render TeX formulae as well.

Totally simple to use:

Write your email in your email client's rich editor using Github-flavoured Markdown.
Right-click in the compose area and then click "Markdown Toggle".
Your email is now pretty! (That is, it's been rendered to HTML.)
If you like the way it looks, just send it. If you want to change or add something, click "Markdown Toggle" again to get back to your original Markdown.
Repeat as necessary.

Markdown Here is primarily targeted to work with Gmail and Thunderbird, but it also works pretty well with Yahoo and Hotmail. Additionally, it works great with Google Groups and Sites, Evernote's web interface, Blogger, Wordpress, and more!

Syntax highlighting note: Use fenced code blocks and specify the language name. See the project page for an example.

Privacy: Markdown Here accesses and modifies web content when you activate it. It can, in theory, access other web content, but does not. It also makes no Internet requests whatsoever. Your data is modified when and where you choose, and does not leave your browser.

Available as a Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Thunderbird extension.

This is an open source project. Visit Markdown Here's Github page for full instructions, more information, bug reports, or to contribute.

Your extension? Let us know if we can update or correct anything!