I’ve recently made a conscious effort to learn and consistently use Markdown. The learning curve is small and once you’ve got your head round it and the majority committed to muscle memory it flows really nicely.

I’ve put together a quick hit guide to learn from and also serve as a long standing reminder to myself for anything that I may forget over time!

Feel free to reach out with anything I may have missed, not learnt or potentially know nothing about!

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Headings take the first thing to learn, the size depends on the amount of hashtags used in front of them, as per these three examples below:

#Heading

##Heading 2

###Heading 3

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Bold, Italics and Strikethrough are all possible using a variety of different punctuation characters as per these examples below:

*Italics is created by using a singular asterisk both before and after the text*

 **Bold text is created using two asterisks before and after the text**

***Bold and italicised is created using three asterisks before and after the text***

~~strikethrough~~ is created using two tilde before and after the text

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Lists and checklists are all possible, with choices being varied so you can tailor them to what you need:

* = Bulletpoint

– [ ] = Tick List

1. = Number Ordered List

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You can also link web pages/links within Markdown using the below format, for example if you were going to link Google:

[Google](https://www.google.co.uk)

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The above cover 95% of the writing that I do where I use markdown, probably the only thing left to mention is adding any code snippets in to any text you are working on. This can be done by using three backticks ```before and after the code snippet“`

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