Remember the Alt/Ctrl+Shift+9/0 Keyboard shortcuts from this post? What you’ll see in the below GIF is that I’ve created a Markdown “preview window” for each of the chapter lists within a section of my book. I can minimize the window to a teeny tiny tile, place it wherever I want… and click on it whenever I want to preview my Markdown: … and the best part is that every time I zoom into the same list, the exact same window will be right there where I left it: I can resize or fully expand that window as I wish: All I do is hit Ctrl+Shift+F5 to have a configurable window that pops up with the entire contents of my list, giving me a preview of my work. In the GIF below, I’ve zoomed into a chapter from my book (written in Markdown in WorkFlowy). First a show and tell… and then I’ll explain the very few steps to set it up. Wouldn’t it be something if you had one simple keyboard shortcut that gave you the ability to preview (see the HTML) of whatever list you’ve zoomed into – right in WorkFlowy? I’ve been doing this for a couple of weeks already, and it’s sublime. So you’re a Markdown junkie and you want to preview your work – to see what your end format looks like – especially displaying any images you might have – instead of copying to an online Markdown tool in another browser tab. In my book I walk you through automating Markdown writing in WorkFlowy – from the very first bullet of your body of work all the way up to Word and Adobe Indesign for self publishing. If you’re a Markdown adept and you haven’t been writing directly in WorkFlowy, you’ve been seriously missing out on the punch that WorkFlowy packs as an outliner – you know, the ability to organize your thoughts.

It doesn’t get any better than implementing Markdown in an outliner. And the more you engage with those people, the easier it is to remember their names. Learning Markdown is as easy as remembering the names of 5-10 new people, max. This is for all of you Markdown fans out there… and a teaser for those of you who need to take your writing places (and have yet to discover what Markdown is).

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