Sometimes the best technology is the kind you’re not even aware of, but you become so used to it that you really notice something is missing when it’s not there.
Take lists for example. We’ve all used lists in a word processor before, and are familiar with how they work. You usually hit a toolbar icon to set the current line as a bulleted/numbered list, but the rest of the functionality occurs transparently, like the indentation and handling of the bullets.
So when you switch from a dedicated Markdown editor like Byword, to using WikiPack’s web editor, you instinctively expect it to behave in the same way, and now it does!
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Markdown for the masses?
There seems to be somewhat of a plaintext resurgence of late, but there are some who feel that Markdown may confuse non-technical people. For WikiPack, it’s a key feature, but for some it may be a barrier to entry. My hope is that by making a web Markdown editor that abstracts a lot of the Markdown away from the writer with smart, transparent tools, that barrier may be removed, and WikiPack may yet see mass adoption.
Maybe WikiPack is useful to more than Markdown nerds and information hoarders like myself :)
Check it out at http://WikiPackIt.com
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