Writing markdown - my favourite tools

Documentation for software often requires programmers to write in specific formats, like MarkDown (which this Gist is written in) or reStructuredText, which InterMine uses for Sphinx, hosted on readthedocs.org.

Personally, I prefer to use MarkDown - it seems more ubiquitous to me, given that StackOverflow and GitHub both use markdown by default. Here are a few of my favourite tools to handle this:

• StackEdit - a fabulous melding of Google Docs with a realtime markdown preview and collaborative editing. A great way to work on a doc with others before uploading it to your official documentation section.
• Pandoc - and especially their online converter - write in most common formats, convert to other common formats. For me, that means I can write InterMine documents in markdown and then quickly convert it to restructured text without having to remember two similar but different syntaxes.
• Atom Markdown Preview Extension - honourable mention, allows you to edit and preview markdown in realtime.

If you have other great tools for this scenario I'd love to hear!