Markdown is a lightweight styling language. It allows you to style your text without taking your hands off the keyboard. It encodes the basic styles into the text, but does so in a way that keeps the text very readable, unlike other markup languages (looking at you, Hypertext Markup Language).

It’s de facto standard is CommonMark.

Examples from Memory

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3 (... up to 6 I think)
Regular line of text.

New paragraph, separated by a blank 
line from the text above.

--- 
Horizontal rule

*italic* and **bold**

* list
* of
* bullets

1. List
2. Of
3. Numbers

> Quote

[link to a page](<http://www.google.com>)
![image embed](<http://www.imgur.com/whatever.jpg>)

For GitHub & Notion, at least:
- [ ] To do
- [x] Completed to do

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

Markdown

Related Notes

Plain Text Durability

Mermaid

Extended Markdown Syntax

CommonMark