diff --git a/_tools/buttondown.md b/_tools/buttondown.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cd565de --- /dev/null +++ b/_tools/buttondown.md @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +--- +title: Buttondown +category: "email" +description: "Buttondown is an email platform to run your newsletter." +icon: buttondown.png +website: https://buttondown.com/ +syntax: + - id: headings + available: y + - id: paragraphs + available: y + - id: line-breaks + available: n + - id: bold + available: y + - id: italic + available: y + - id: blockquotes + available: y + - id: ordered-lists + available: y + - id: unordered-lists + available: y + - id: code + available: y + - id: horizontal-rules + available: y + - id: links + available: y + - id: images + available: y + - id: tables + available: y + - id: fenced-code-blocks + available: y + - id: syntax-highlighting + available: y + - id: footnotes + available: y + - id: heading-ids + available: p + notes: "Automatically generated. There's no way to set custom heading IDs." + - id: definition-lists + available: n + - id: strikethrough + available: y + - id: task-lists + available: n + - id: emoji-cp + available: y + - id: emoji-sc + available: n + - id: highlight + available: n + - id: subscript + available: y + - id: superscript + available: y + - id: auto-url-linking + available: y + - id: disabling-auto-url + available: n + - id: html + available: p + notes: "Some HTML is sanitized." +--- + +[Buttondown](https://buttondown.com) is an email platform, similar to the now-defunct [TinyLetter](https://buttondown.com/comparisons/tinyletter), that allows you to send emails to subscribers. It also has integrations with many other platforms to automatically publish or add subscribers, amongst other possibilities. + +The email editor [supports Markdown](https://buttondown.com/features/markdown), with the possibility to switch to a WYSIWYG editor for those who prefer it. + +{% include image.html file="/assets/images/tools/buttondown.png" alt="Buttondown email editor" %} + +There are a couple minor compatibility issues noted below but, generally speaking, Buttondown has solid Markdown support. According to [their docs](https://docs.buttondown.com/using-markdown), it uses Python-Markdown for parsing and rendering along with a few extensions. The live editor is fairly intuitive and gives you a preview on how the email will look in both the archive and in email clients like Gmail. Copying and pasting Markdown-formatted text into the editor works the way you'd expect it to. + +{% include tool-syntax-table.html %} diff --git a/assets/images/tool-icons/buttondown.png b/assets/images/tool-icons/buttondown.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1e791e14 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/images/tool-icons/buttondown.png differ diff --git a/assets/images/tools/buttondown.png b/assets/images/tools/buttondown.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e0dc24bc Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/images/tools/buttondown.png differ