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by kaisdavis 4172 days ago
I've been beta testing this and it's been revolutionary — and saved me a bunch of money.

I spent ~$250 on a pages template to use for my reports. And because I write everything in Markdown, my workflow is:

• Write in Markdown

• Open up report

• Painstakingly hand copy and reformat Markdown to Pages

• Save as PDF

• Send to client

Now? I take that markdown, drop it into Remarq, and — BOOM! — I have a beautiful report that I can send to a client.

It's pretty awesome, you guys.

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Thanks for being an early tester, and for the kind words, Kai. I'm excited to see how Remarq can help more people.
Did you try/consider pandoc?
To me, it wasn't an option. I'm not a developer — I'm an SEO and Outreach Consultant — and so using something off the shelf (at first a pages template, now Remarq) made a lot more sense.

I didn't want to build something DIY or right to customize something. Pages — and now Remarq — made it easy for me to get a beautiful output.

And, on top of that, there was an ROI consideration. How much time would I spend getting Pandoc working that I could spend growing my business, mapping out a campaign for a client, or relaxing?

To me, the cost of Pandoc was too high.