Three Markdown Dropbox Bloggging Platforms

With the demise on MobileMe, its web sites and easy blog hosting and publishing using iWeb, a vacuum has been created for easy blog writing and publishing. Saving plain text files to a Dropbox folder doesn’t get much easier for creating a blog post. This appears to be the route take by three different sites, with the option to add formatting to the text using Markdown notation to make text bold, italic, add links, lists and pictures.

A couple of weeks ago I started trying Calepin.co. I like it. I like the look and feel of how it works. I am able to do what I have wanted, given my limited knowledge of such things. It is enough for me to understand.

Today I see there are two more such sites.

Scriptogr.am which appears very similar to Calepin. The signup and connection methods are identical to my memory. Scriptogram seems to manage files and posts slightly differently. There are plans for more customising of Scriptogram sites than Calepin says it will offer. I have connected Scriptogram to Dropbox and will give it a try.

Skrivr.com is also a Markdown / Dropbox blogging method as I understand it. Signup is by invite only. I do not have an invite but if I get one I will try it.

They all look to be trying to fill the void of simple blogging but from different angles. Hopefully not too many toes will be trodden on in the dance of these new hybrid blogging platforms.

 

Update: Make that four Markdown / Dropbox Blogs.

 Droptype.com is one with less (no?) option to customise the font or theme but does have a unique (so far) feature of being able to see updates of a draft post in the browser to see how a post will look or read before publishing.