Markdown is simple and powerful text formatter. I mostly use it for blogging and note taking.

Overview

I recently presented about markdown and wanted to share with you too. So here it is.

• It is a Markup language to format text.

• You can use it for the following things:

  • Taking Notes
  • Writing Blogs
  • Documenting
  • Generating Static site
  • Writing Books … so on
    
    

• Different applications have implemented markdown like:

  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Github
  • Ghostwriter
  • Discord
  • Juyter notebook … so on

Let’s first see some basics of MarkDown from the pdf slide that I have created before.

Do you wanna know some Cool Things about Markdown ?

Pandoc

Using pandoc, I can change file format from .md to .pdf or .txt to .md or .md to latex, I can go on and on for this so let’s stop here.

You have to install pandoc in your machine. Check Official Doc

Some basic pandoc commands are:

pandoc slide.md -o slide.pdf

pandoc slide.md -o slide.txt

To generate a pdf like I have createD above, you have to add some theme in it. I used beamer, which is based on latex, and some themes to give a decent look for the slide.

Note: You may have to install some additional latex dependencies to use beamer

pandoc -t beamer -V theme=Berlin -V colortheme=seahorse slide.md -o slide.pdf

The simple architecture of Pandoc is:

[input format] ==reader ==> [Pandoc AST] == writer==> [output format]

If you want to know more about the architecture, Check Official Documentation

Obsidian

Obsidian is a popular note-taking and knowledge management application. It has some cool features like: Bidirectional Linking, Graphical View and Community Plugins.

Click Here explore more about Obsidian.

Note: It is free for personal use only.

See you again.

Hey did you take a note for this in .md ? What ? Do it now! NOW