One sentence per line
One of the many things I like about blogging in Markdown is being able to write with semantic line breaks. I first discovered these at one of my prior jobs. I went to contribute to my team's Markdown docs and saw that they looked like this:
These are our docs.
There is a line break after every sentence,
and sometimes there are line breaks after commas.
This is another paragraph.
And so on....
I’ll admit, my first reaction was that this is a bizarre and obnoxious way to write. I soon learned that it was not just willy-nilly weirdness, but rather the deliberate use of semantic line breaks. And ... I still thought it was bizarre and obnoxious.
But I eventually came around and am now a big fan. Semantic line breaks are awesome for viewing diffs in version control, if you do that sort of thing. I don’t do much of that anymore.
Still, I find that one clause per line makes writing and especially editing more pleasant. It helps me focus on the current thought. It also makes my source text less messy and easier to parse. For example, Markdown links are often long and ugly, so I confine them to their own line. This keeps my "thinking words" clean.
If you’re curious to learn more, I’ll point you toward smarter people: