Markdown has pretty much been my default markup language for the last few years. All my writing is done using Markdown as well as my journal, notes and other forms of textual data. Although using Markdown for writing is easy now that I know the syntax very well, I still need good tools around me to make the most of Markdown.

I live in my browser on an almost daily basis so I have started accumulating a number of bookmarklets that help me when it comes to using Markdown

Marky the Markdownifier

This is a bookmarklet that converts the current page you're viewing to Markdown. If you're like me and use Markdown for all your documents, then this is really handy. There's also a number of other bookmarklets from Markdownifier that provide different results.

Markdown Link Bookmarklet

Crafting Markdown links from urls is something I do a handful of times everyday. It makes senses then that I automate this little chore.

Jason Seney has a great little bookmarklet that once clicked, converts the current url and title to a Markdown link for you and pops it up in a modal box for you to copy it from.

Kiwi Bookmarklet

Although I use my browser for a lot of day to day work, I use a dedicated client called Kiwi for posting to App.net. The nice thing about Kiwi is that it now supports Markdown style links when you are writing your posts.

Much like the my previous bookmarklet, this one creates a Markdown link for a new App.net post in Kiwi. If you select any text on the page then it will also use that for your link.

This is by no means a finished list. There are probably lots of others addons and extensions and for browsers out there, but I like bookmarklets due to their flexible nature in being able to run on different browsers.