Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Askdown makes forms legible as text
Askdown is a Markdown-like format for describing forms, with a live builder, a JSON model and schema, and hosted form features.
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- Developers and teams defining forms as text
- Worth noticing
- A `-> #sorry` answer jump routes workshop respondents to a separate follow-up page.
Field notes
The example’s source and rendered output appear side by side, making the relationship between syntax and form controls easy to inspect. Its notation covers more than labels and text fields: the page also documents choice defaults, validation attributes, file-upload constraints, and answer-based jumps. The homepage links to a JSON Schema and reference libraries, while hosted publishing and response summaries are described as sign-in features.
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