# The Seekers' changeLog You write, you click save, you're done. Why Write + Publish when the two can occur simultaneously? With [PubWriter](https://pubwriter.com/manifesto), you create a file and what you save is automatically published. No login required and nothing to upload. It's all happens behind the scenes via your Dropbox (with the additional benefit that everything you write is also backed up). Your work is hidden until you share the link. [Markdown](https://pubwriter.com/markdown) is all you need you to know. The look and feel of your site is uniquely yours, and because formatting is [minimal](minimalism) by design, you can focus on your content. It's the 'digital minimalism' movement that's been around for > Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. ~ [Cal Newport](https://amzn.to/2KRAUVn) With PubWriter, you're leaving breadcrumbs of knowledge which allow you to become more powerful because you can recall your wisdom faster than ever before. You can share your wisdom like never before. Your knowledge should never be locked away in a proprietary way. All you need is a dropbox account and a plain text editor. My editor of choice is [atom](https://pubwriter.com/tutorials/atom) because I love the old-school terminal display. It's easy on my eyes I start writing first thing in the morning. It's free and I will write a short setup tutorial on how to use it to create your ideal writing environment. ![](https://read.pubwriter.com/images/atom.jpg) The peace of mind comes from knowing everything on your site in is your dropbox, continuously backed up to the cloud and sync'd with as many devices as you need. If you jump between a mac and pc, markdown is platform agnostic and Markdown is the only true 'open source' formatting besides plain text (which loses the ability to do any character or paragraph formatting). Rich Text Formatting is great, but was created before the web. Markdown takes advantage of all the benefits HTML supported by any web browser. With markdown, you don't need to know HTML, CSS, or JS - but you get all the advantages of them! Using PubWriter as my medium, I've been essentially building ways to utilize markdown with CSS, HTML, and Javascript to create the a website content management system without any friction for writers. And I've been at it since 2015. I can count on one hand the number of days I did not use markdown over the past 5 years. Both Markdown and HTML are markup languages. However a good way to think of Markdown is that it's shorthand for HTML. Instead of using `