The Markdown Resume
The Markdown Resume launched on July 11, 2014 with 117 votes, #193 of 2,263 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
The Markdown Resume is a tool that helps users maintain a single resume in Markdown format and automatically convert it into multiple output formats including plain text, PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML. Designed for job seekers who need to provide resumes in different formats, it eliminates the burden of manually updating multiple versions. The solution simplifies resume management by allowing users to maintain one source document that can be published online and generated in whichever format is requested.
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From the sources
Maintaining a resume is one of those annoying tasks that always takes up much more time than it should. Compounding this is the fact that resumes are regularly requested in different formats: raw text, pdf, Microsoft Word, etc. In addition, it might be desirable to have a HTML version online somewhere for added visibility. How then to manage this complexity? No one wants to manually update four versions of their resume, and the pdf conversion tools included with word processors leave much to be desired. Christophe-Marie Duquesne has a great blog post in which he shows that using the document translation tool pandoc , you can maintain your resume in markdown format and convert to other…from mszep.github.io
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