Creating a new document in Byword is a keystroke away. Press ⌘N and a new document will open with the default format. The default format for new document can be configure in the Preferences.
Markdown documents are simply plain text files with Markdown extras on top. To learn more about what is Markdown, visit Byword's Markdown guide on our website.
When saving a Markdown document you should prefer an extension that is commonly recognized as plain text. Byword recognizes the following plain text extensions: txt
, text
, md
, markdown
, markdn
, mdown
and mkdn
.