John Gruber:Markdown.(Blog)In:Daring Fireball.2004,abgerufen am 1.August 2023(englisch):„Aaron Swartz deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his feedback on the design of Markdown’s formatting syntax. Markdown is much better thanks to Aaron’s ideas, feedback, and testing. Also, Aaron’s html2text is a very handy (and free) utility for turning HTML into Markdown-formatted plain text.“
Jeff Atwood:The Future of Markdown.Coding Horror: Programming and Human Factors.25.Oktober 2012,archiviertvomOriginal(nicht mehr online verfügbar)am11.Februar 2014;abgerufen am 16.Juni 2013(englisch).
Dawid Bednarski:The History of Markdown: A Prelude to the No-Code Movement.(Blog)Taskade.com,25.März 2022,abgerufen am 31.Juli 2023(englisch):„At some point, Gruber and Swartz communicated and the latter became Markdown’s ‘sole beta-tester.’ Swartz provided feedback on the syntax and even wrote html2text, a free conversion tool for turning HTML into Markdown. … Swartz, … according to Gruber … played an ‘instrumental’ role in shaping its syntax: ‘… More or less: Aaron was my sounding board, my muse.’“
Jeff Atwood:The Future of Markdown.Coding Horror: Programming and Human Factors.25.Oktober 2012,archiviertvomOriginal(nicht mehr online verfügbar)am11.Februar 2014;abgerufen am 16.Juni 2013(englisch).