Source format
Markdown
Markdown
Plain text with a few symbols to mark headings (#), bold (**) and lists (-). It reads well as it is and is the format of documentation, wikis and personal notes.
- Best for
- Documentation, notes, READMEs, blog posts.
- Limits
- Limited layout; complex tables aren’t supported.
- Type
- text with light formatting
- Editable
- with any editor
- Used by
- GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, blogs
- Extensions
- .md .markdown
- Since
- 2004