How to Use Markdown

January 08, 2026 – Written by Slavetomints

Headings

There are 6 levels of headers, in order to make one, you add a # in front of the word, like this:

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## example

And it looks like this:

example

The more #’s you add, the higher the level is. Only one # is equivalent to a <h1> in HTML. 4 #’s is equivalent to a <h4>.

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# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
#### Header 4
##### Header 5
###### Header 6

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5
Header 6

Paragraphs

To have regular text, just start typing! you don’t need anything special.

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To have regular text, just start typing! you don't need anything special.

Italics / Bold / Underline / Etc

Italics

Put the text you want to be italicized between two asterisks

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*Put the text you want to be italicized between two asterisks*

Bold

Put the text you want to be bolded between asterisks, with two on each side

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**Put the text you want to be bolded between asterisks, with two on each side**

Strikethrough

Put the text you want to be struck through between tildes, with two on each side

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~~Put the text you want to be struck through between tildes, with two on each side~~

Blockquotes

To type a block quote, just put a > in front of what you are typing similar to how you type a header.

You can have multiple layers of block quotes by stacking >’s

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> To type a block quote, just put a `>` in front of what you are typing similar to how you type a header. 
> > You can have multiple layers of block quotes by stacking `>`'s

Lists

Ordered Lists

For an ordered list, just put numbers in front of the list items as such:

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  4. Four
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1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

Unordered Lists

An unordered list is the same idea as the ordered list, just replace the numbers with dashes (-).

  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four
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- One
- Two
- Three
- Four

Multi-Layer Lists

To add subitems to a list, simply indent the next entry

  • One
    • Subitem
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four
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- One
  - Subitem
- Two
- Three
- Four

Code snippets

For inline code, simply surround the section you want with backticks.

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For `inline code`, simply surround the section you want with backticks.

For a code block, put three backticks on separate lines before and after the code.

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Hi! This is a code block!
It looks pretty neat!


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`​``
Hi! This is a code block!
It looks pretty neat!
``​`

Links can be included as such:

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[text that you see](hxxps://linkhere)

text that you see

Images

If you want to include an image, see the following syntax:

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![Image alt text](/path/to/image.jpg)

Image alt text

Horizontal Rules

If you want to break up some content, all you have to do is put three dashes side by side on their own line as such:

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