I thought it would be great to post a series of “tools of the trade” posts where I’ll introduce various apps & tools that work really well with Markdown and WikiPack.
The first tool I’d like to talk about is QuickCursor, a handy little Mac app from HogBay Software that is a great compliment for the WikiPack web app.
What does it do?
It’s a really simple tool that sends the contents of any editable text field to your favourite text editor.
How does it work well with WikiPack?
Markdown is plain text, and as such is perfectly editable in any web browser’s text field, but using a dedicated text editor brings a lot of advantages like autocompletion, auto-indentation, keyboard shortcuts for making text bold, italic, etc. etc.
My regular workflow is to click the edit button in WikiPack, then hit the QuickCursor global keyboard shortcut to send the page’s Markdown to TextMate where I can write the page, preview it as it will be rendered, and then send it back to the browser before saving the page.
It’s a really handy little app which I highly recommend if you spend any amount of time editing text in web applications with any kind of frequency!
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