Get Ready to TangleDown

tangledown combines the simplicity of Markdown syntax with the sexiness of Tangle.js reactive documents and the loveliness of Rickshaw plots ~~and the power of SymPy symbolic solvers~~.

You type

If you eat t[number](cookies ' cookies'), you consume t[](calories ' calories'). This constitutes t[](dailypercent percent) of a daily intake of t[number](100<dailycalories..100 ' calories').

t[if](overninek)
~ # It's over 9000!

~~~~.initialize
#cookies: 3
#calories: 150
#dailypercent: 1
#dailycalories: 2100
#overninek: 0
~~~~
~~~~.update
#calories: #cookies * 50
#dailypercent: (#cookies * 50) / #dailycalories
#overninek: #calories > 9000
~~~~

You get

If you eat cookies, you consume calories. This constitutes of a daily intake of calories.

It's over 9000!

Want more?

Get the code

What can it do?

Capture your thoughts in a ~~concise, beautiful~~ less-painful way
Replace brittle Excel documents
Change the world

How do I try it?

Download it from GitHub
Check out the examples or the syntax

Who's to blame?

me, for hacking it together,
John Gruber for making text awesome,
Bret Victor for bringing text to life,
the Django Committers and pinax for doing the web right,
The guys at Shutterstock for breaking d3 in all the right ways,
The SymPy Development Team for making hard things easy,
and many others!

What's next?

Stand up a demo site on AppEngine
Integrate SymPy
Support and extend the TangleKit controls

tangledown.org