What are markdown text editors, which we learned about today? A plain text formatting syntax called Markdown was created with the goal of simplifying internet writing. The idea behind Markdown is that plain text documents ought to be readable without the interference of tags. But that there need to be a mechanism to include text modifiers like lists, bold, italics, etc. It serves as an alternative to WYSIWYG editors, which use rich text that is later translated to correct HTML.