Marked Share

Marked Share is a free service for publishing, reviewing, and sharing Markdown and TextBundle documents on the web. It is a subproduct of Marked 3, the Markdown preview app, but it does not require Marked to be used — anyone can sign up free and publish Markdown either from Marked or straight from the web. Documents can be shared with images and attachments through short links on markedb.in. Beyond simple sharing, Marked Share lets other people highlight and comment on a document, gives you a library to manage what you have published, and lets you keep private drafts until you are ready to share. It also publishes "blog" feeds with RSS/Atom and Micro.blog integration, and offers either a built-in editor or a full API for integrating with your favorite editor or tool. Markdown and TextBundle documents are written in plain text, but they frequently carry images and attachments that have to travel with them for the document to make sense. That makes everyday sharing harder than it should be: you want readers to see the formatted result, keep the assets intact, and have a way to respond to what they read. Marked Share addresses this by publishing documents to the web as shareable, linkable pages rather than as loose files. It also solves the timing problem that writers face — material is often not ready to be public, so the service supports private drafts that stay unshared until the author decides otherwise. For authors who think in Markdown and write regularly, the service turns individual documents into something closer to a public stream. The core of Marked Share is publishing and sharing. A document is published from Marked or from the web, and the result is served under a short link on markedb.in that is easy to paste into a message, an email, or a chat. Because images and attachments travel with the document, the published page presents the full piece rather than a bare text file. Published documents are collected in a library that the author manages from the service, so there is a persistent place to track what has been shared. Private drafts sit alongside published items within that library, letting an author build a body of work incrementally and release each document only when it is ready to be seen. Marked Share is not only a publishing endpoint; it is also a place for review. Readers can highlight passages in a shared document and leave comments on them. This turns a published Markdown file into a two-way artifact: an author can send out a draft, receive specific feedback anchored to particular sentences rather than to vague general impressions, and revise accordingly. Because feedback lands on the document itself, there is no need to reconcile separate files, comment threads, or copies of the text. The highlight-and-comment model is what makes the service useful to anyone who wants a second pair of eyes on a document before it goes further — a reviewer, an editor, a colleague, or a client. For authors who publish regularly, Marked Share can go beyond individual documents and publish "blog" feeds. Each feed is served with RSS/Atom, so it can be subscribed to in any feed reader, and it integrates with Micro.blog as well. This means a set of Markdown documents can behave less like loose files and more like a running publication that interested readers can follow. Writers who already keep their material in Markdown — notes, essays, updates — can expose a stream of it without standing up a separate blogging platform or converting everything into a content management system. The feed is generated from the documents themselves, so the Markdown remains the source. Marked Share gives authors two ways to work. The first is a built-in editor on the service itself, sufficient for writing or editing a document and publishing it from the browser. The second is a full API, which allows Marked Share to be integrated with whatever editor or tool the author already prefers, so publishing can happen from within an existing workflow instead of requiring a switch to a new application. Either route produces the same result: a shared document with a short link, attached images and attachments, and the option of highlights and comments from readers. The service is free to use, with no subscription required, and access begins with a sign-in or a free sign-up, after which the library, drafts, published documents, and feeds are managed from one place. Because Marked Share is free and requires no subscription, the cost of sharing a document or trying the service out is effectively zero, and there is no commitment involved in using it. Authors get the benefit of a short, clean link instead of an unwieldy file attachment, and recipients get a page they can read and annotate. Private drafts give authors control over timing, so work in progress never has to be visible before it is meant to be. The library keeps published material organized rather than scattered. And the RSS/Atom and Micro.blog feeds give a body of Markdown writing a way to reach readers who want to follow it, without the author building and maintaining a separate publishing stack. Concrete uses of Marked Share follow directly from how it works. A writer can draft an essay in Markdown, keep it private until it is polished, then publish it to a short markedb.in link and send that link to a friend or an editor who highlights passages and leaves comments. A team member can publish a document that includes images and attachments so a reviewer sees the complete piece rather than a stripped-down text file. Someone who writes regularly can maintain a feed of published documents and share the RSS/Atom or Micro.blog subscription with readers who want to follow along. And anyone who prefers to write in their own editor can integrate through the API and publish from there, keeping the tool they like while still using Marked Share as the place documents live. Marked itself can also publish straight to the service. Marked Share is for people who write in Markdown and TextBundle: writers, note takers, and users of text editors, which are the topics under which the product is listed. It also suits Marked users who want a publishing and review layer for their documents, though Marked is not required. The integrations named in the product are Marked itself, markedb.in for short links, RSS/Atom feeds, and Micro.blog, along with a full API for connecting an editor or tool of choice. Pricing is straightforward: Marked Share is free, described as a free service with no subscription required, and is reached by signing in or signing up for a free account. Marked Share packages Markdown publishing into a single free service: publish a document from Marked or the web, share it with a short markedb.in link that carries its images and attachments, collect highlights and comments from readers, keep drafts private until the time is right, and optionally turn published documents into RSS/Atom and Micro.blog feeds. With a built-in editor for quick work and a full API for integrating existing tools, it makes sharing and reviewing Markdown and TextBundle documents as simple as sending a link.