The Markdown Guide by Matt Cone

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Markdown has succeeded where other markup languages have failed because it strikes the right balance between power and simplicity. It’s easy to learn and simple to use. Its tremendous success means it’s ubiquitous enough to replace WYSIWYG editors on websites like Reddit and GitHub. But Markdown is also powerful enough to create documents, books, and technical documentation. Markdown is literally everywhere.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages.

there are a couple different reasons why people use Markdown instead of WYSIWYG editors.

Markdown can be used for everything. People use it to create websites, docu- ments, notes, books, presentations, email messages, and technical documentation.

Markdown is portable. Files containing Markdown-formatted text can be opened using virtually any application. If you decide you don’t like the Mark- down application you’re currently using, you can import your Markdown files into another Markdown application. That’s in stark contrast to word processing applications like Microsoft Word that lock your content into a proprietary file format.

Markdown is platform independent. You can create Markdown-formatted text on any device running any operating system.

Markdown is future proof. Even if the application you’re using stops working at some point in the future, you’ll still be able to read your Markdown-formatted text using a text editing application. This is an important consideration when it comes to books, university theses, and other milestone documents that need to be preserved indefinitely.

Markdown is everywhere. Websites like Reddit and GitHub support Markdown, and lots of desktop and web-based applications support it.
Dillinger is one of the best online Markdown editors.

Heading:

# H1
## H2
### H3

Bold:

**bold text**

Italic:

*italicized text*

Blockquote:

> blockquote

Ordered List:

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item

Unordered List:

- First item
- Second item
- Third item

Code:

`code`
Horizontal Rule:

---

Link:

[title](https://www.example.com):

Image:


Footnote:

Here's a sentence with a footnote. [^1]
[^1]: This is the footnote.

Task List:

- [x] Write the press release
- [ ] Update the website
- [ ] Contact the media

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