Last week I invented a simple plain-text blogging format called Arcdown (.ad) to assist in publishing rich-featured blog posts in a simple plain-text format. It currently supports these attributes:

• title
• slug
• author/email
• topics/sub-topics
• tags
• article summary/content

It’s compatible with Markdown and presumes you’ll parse the article content with a library like Earmark. I’ve written a relatively robust Arcdown parser and published it to hex as version 0.1.1:

• source: https://github.com/functionhaus/arcdown
• hex package: https://hex.pm/packages/arcdown
• docs: https://hexdocs.pm/arcdown/0.1.1/readme.html

This will be developed into the backend of a plain-text blogging engine called Archivist, somewhat like Nabo but tailored for a more robust featureset. Any thoughts, PRs, or feedback are welcome :)

~Mike