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Markdown Cheatsheet for Obsidian

I’ve recently migrated from native apple notes to Obsidian for every day note taking.

Reasons to migrate.

  • You can’t link notes with Apple notes. Apple notes does not natively support links.
  • Obsidian also gives you an awesome visual graph of nodes which also shows the link from one note to other notes. The graph shows you how the notes link together.
  • All the notes are written in markdown which allows you to easily format text content into titles, lists, links, images. It’s easy enough to format blog posts from your iPhone
  • The content for my blog dynamitefrog.com is also written in markdown [[2022-10-28-jekyll-blog-cheatsheet]]

That said. I have created this cheatsheet for markdown to refer back to so we can make the most out of our markdown notes.

Following the simple markdown syntax below your notes will become so much more readable and engaging.

What is Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain-text formatting syntax. It’s widely used for formatting text on the web. Here’s a quick reference guide:

Headers

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# Header 1

## Header 2

### Header 3

#### Header 4

##### Header 5

###### Header 6

Emphasis

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_italic_
**bold**

Lists

Unordered List

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- Item 1
- Item 2
  - Subitem 1
  - Subitem 2

Ordered List

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1. Item 1
2. Item 2
   1. Subitem 1
   2. Subitem 2

Check List

Obsidian Markdown Checklist

The spaces are important in markdown

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- [ ] walk the dog
- [ ] feed the fish
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[Link Text](http://www.example.com)
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[Link Text](http://www.example.com){:target="\_blank"}

Images

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![Alt Text](http://www.example.com/image.jpg)

Blockquotes

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> This is a blockquote.

Horizontal line

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---

Tables

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| Header 1 | Header 2 |
| -------- | -------- |
| Cell 1   | Cell 2   |
| Cell 3   | Cell 4   |

Task List

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- [x] Task 1
- [ ] Task 2
- [ ] Task 3

Strike through

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~~strike through~~

I hope you’re impressed by this. It’s a real game changer. I’m sitting here editing blog posts from my phone while I’ll wait for the rest of the world to tell me it’s time to go.

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