Right off the bat a limitation of this application is the lack of user friendly toolbars that help you craft the document into something that looks pleasing or what you are looking for. If anything, Markdown is helping to preserve the old style of writing as it eliminates flashy text fonts, colors, and other heavily coded features in text writing these days.Īs discussed in class, limitations and affordances are found in every medium, this is certainly the case with MacDown. Markdown relies heavily on coding to fully have control of the text and message the user is trying to convey. I think Liu would be interested in writing in the Markdown style because it combines the traditional way of writing with literal coding. Having to place the hashmarks and craft the syntax to portray the message is something that could be seen as a limitation. While there is an option in word to see the paragraph breakdown, (indents shown and new paragraphs) MacDown is very much more different. MacDown is such a unique writing experience in the sense that it is much more mechanical than Word is. Here is a list that has similarties with wordĪnd that’s pretty much it. By no means am I an expert at this but having spent time with this, I feel more comfortable writing.

This lab posting will go into detail about my general observations about MacDown and what I believe are the affordances and limitations with this application.

Everything I see is familiar to me and there is a sense of comfort this is all gone in MacDown. After spending some time with MacDown, I quickly realized how different it is compared to other writing applications, lets say Microsoft Word.įor most classes and writing assignments, Word is the default application that I open up.

Macdown app