If you’ve used Google Docs or Word, you can select bold, italic, headings and so on like this.

However, when using editors for writing code, such buttons are often not available, or you may not be able to select text with a mouse.

Markdown is a language (markup language) that lets you represent headings, emphasis, and lists by adding simple characters to text.

You often use it in editors like VS Code, Notion, Obsidian, so I made a cheat sheet (there are many like this on the web, but I wanted something a bit simpler).

Headings

Headings use #.

## タイトル

You type it like this

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Text formatting

Bold

**太字にしたい文字**

This becomes bold

Italic

_斜体にしたい文字_

This becomes italic

Lists

- `-`を入れた後にスペースを入れると
- 箇条書きになります

• If you put - followed by a space
• it becomes a list

Links

[リンクテキスト](https://example.com)

Link text

There are many other syntaxes, but if you cover these, you can look up the rest when needed.