Write in Markdown. (And then some.)
Buttondown has full-fledged Markdown support with some extra fun stuff, too.
For many people, your editor is the center of an email tool. Our editor is best-in-class, allowing you to write WYSIWYG with rich text – and in Markdown, the lightning-fast language that has become standard throughout the industry.
What’s Markdown?
Markdown is a simple way of writing that gives you all of the richness of a full-fledged email editor, directly in your document. For example, instead of clicking a passage and bolding it, you add **asterisks** to your text, and Buttondown will automatically bold the text for you.
Markdown was created by John Gruber in 2004, and has quickly become widespread thanks to its simple goal:
The overriding design goal is to make [Markdown] as readable as possible… a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.
If you’re new to Markdown, you can use this tutorial to get up to speed.
For more on how you can use Markdown, check out our Markdown help document.