Introduction

I primarily take notes in vim in markdown format. The upside is that editing in vim is a pleasure. But one downside of this approach is that my notes often contain images and rich texts (as opposed to plain texts) and vim out of the box is not a good tool to view anything that is more than just text. In this post, I discuss about how you can easily preview your markdown notes in your browser directly from your vim editor with the help of a small vim script and an utility called pandoc in just a couple of keystroke. All without a fancy external vim plugin.

Introduction

The command line has always seemed to me something that is both fascinating and under-utilized to a large extent at the same time. Creating a document on the command line is easy and sometimes it is more straightforward than using WYSIWYG tools like LibreOffice or MS Office or Google Docs. In this post I share how I use Pandoc, Vim and Markdown for creating good professional grade documents on the command line.

MediaWiki is a very popular free and open-source wiki software that powers some of the most visited wikis on the Internet including the Wikipedia. You can also host it in your own environment for your own wiki requirements or for your organization.

At my work, we use MediaWiki for our developer's wiki site. When I started working for a new product team sometimes back, I came to know about this wiki format for the first time and I didn't like it very much.