TFN#63: 🪜Write in Dillinger, Export as file, and…you’ve learned Markdown!

Last week, you saw my love for Markdown. And this week, I recruit more comrades! 😄
If you missed last week’s letter, quickly skim through it so you know what we are discussing in today’s letter.
We will talk about a web app called Dillinger. Dillinger helps us write and preview markdown. We can export files in different formats too. We will use Dillinger to save ChatGPT’s responses in various formats.

Dillinger: free, no sign-up app

I don’t use Dillinger daily, but if you want to learn markdown quickly and intuitively, it is the best choice.
So, no matter whichever browser you’re on, go to https://dillinger.io​
Dillinger starts with an in-built example to help us understand how markdown works. If you want to learn the basics more, go to Markdown Guide​

This is how Dillinger’s screen looks:
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The interface is self-explanatory.
Type on the left, live preview on the right.
You can go through the whole example.

Save ChatGPT conversation in a file

One of the best uses of Markdown and this Dillinger app is to save ChatGPT responses in your favourite file formats, for example: PDF.

I asked ChatGPT to generate a document for our example:

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Then I copy pasted it in Dillinger:

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I hit export as PDF:

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And the PDF is ready!

Find the full document here.

Sharing the screenshot:

So now we have a PDF file, respecting all the original formatting made by ChatGPT. Even the code block is also shown.

We learn when we apply

If you think about it, copy-pasting ChatGPT responses is not exactly learning Markdown. But as you keep using it, you will want to make edits to the document. And that’s how we can learn by applying ourselves.

Tell me something, do you save your ChatGPT conversations anywhere? How?
​Hit Reply and share with me.

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