Now that you have a plain text file opened within a text editor (not word processing app), it's time to put a title at the top of the page.
Much of my content is produced from within an Apple or UNIX environment. If you use Windows or Android just remember that any text editor that allows you to save.txt files will work for writing content in Markdown. The file though should be saved so that it ends in .md or .markdown. I think that .md is more prevalent though and better since it's shorter.
I suppose that if Facebook refreshes their Note product to become more blog-like, there will always be some who will use it – gimmicky or not.
First IFTTT made my life easier with it's plethora of automation recipes, but now it's become a fetish source for reducing screen taps even more with three new apps – Do Button, Do Camera, and Do Note.