Texts in knowledge age
Markdown is a writing style that uses a light convention to produce texts that can be published as digital articles or on a nice looking website. As it is a text format suggests high compatibility between platforms, one of the reasons for using it. In the last decade it has been welcomed and is now a trend to write articles, even books, or a blog on the Internet.
The advantage of this is that you do not depend on a designer, you write a text and publish it on the Internet quickly, what takes time is your organization when it grows, as in everything. It is possible to start using a simple editor as a substitute for a word processor, although not absolutely. If you go a little further, you can incorporate features for simple subscription forms, in the case of implementation on the OnMind platform.
# Title
It's easy to write text with a light convention!
## Subtitle
- this is for **bold**
- this is for *italic*
> Note: This article was originally written in **markdown**
What you need to start with Markdown is simply the following:
| Convention | Description |
|---|---|
| # | followed by space for title (## subtitles) |
| ** | before and after for bold expression |
| - | for bullets (or the number and point for lists) |
| > | followed by space for annotations |
| * | before and after for italic expression |
The standard also includes the insertion of images, links and tables, and can be queried here.
To determine paragraphs simply leave a blank line, i.e. double line break (↵↵). If you want to avoid the additional line break to give continuity to the text block, simply leave two spaces at the end of the line instead of a double break.
Although Markdown allows to incorporate pieces of html (the markup language for web pages) as in the case of frames for videos, OnMind provides in its platform some advanced tags (html) to use in a line features such as: Video, Audio, Buttons, even subscription to mailing lists (for marketing, groups or similar).
This may suggest advanced knowledge or more openness to the technical aspect, but decreases dependency on the publishing process. With these features, no web design knowledge or sophisticated tools are required.
| Convention | Description |
|---|---|
<as-video url="..."><as-video> |
Video according to url |
<as-audio url="..."><as-audio> |
Audio according to url |
<as-image url="..."><as-image> |
Centered image according to url |
<as-embed url="..."><as-embed> |
Embedded object according to url (e.g. genial.ly) |
<as-button url="..."><as-button> |
Button to link according to url |
<as-subscribe pin="..."><as-subscribe> |
Subscription form (for conversions) according to account pin (requires an app) |
<as-order pin="..."></as-order> |
eCommerce Order Form according to account pin (requires an app) and data about items (code, name, units, amount, currency). Normally this would correspond to a product sheet and requires some technical scope due to the way items are reported (in JSON) or to embed it in an html page (which is not Markdown) |
<as-checkout pin="..."></as-checkout> |
Payment button (ePayco-Davivienda gateway) according to account pin (requires an ‘app’) and data for payment (label, code, currency, open, test). Useful for donations or payments with an open amount, for others cases is preferable to use <as-order> |
These features correspond to the OnMind platform, avoid using them outside as they do not work. For documents with high compatibility use the standard image convention of Markdown (
) or pieces ofhtml.
I invite you to check the <onmind.co> site.
OnMind, Apps or platform supported projects to turn on ideas.