What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?
![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png)
Metadata
Highlights
- Modeless markup
There’s another, radically simple approach to markup. Bare URLs,#hashtags, and @mentions are all identifiable within text as special forms. We could think of these approaches as “modeless markup”. There is no distinction between the edit-mode and view-mode text. The text is the same in both cases.
What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?
![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png)
Metadata
Highlights
- Modeless markup
There’s another, radically simple approach to markup. Bare URLs,#hashtags, and @mentions are all identifiable within text as special forms. We could think of these approaches as “modeless markup”. There is no distinction between the edit-mode and view-mode text. The text is the same in both cases.
What if Links Weren’t Meant to Be Prose?
![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png)
Metadata
Highlights
- Modeless markup
There’s another, radically simple approach to markup. Bare URLs,#hashtags, and @mentions are all identifiable within text as special forms. We could think of these approaches as “modeless markup”. There is no distinction between the edit-mode and view-mode text. The text is the same in both cases.