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Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling your writing. It includes conventions for
Syntax highlighted code block
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
- Bulleted
- List
1. Numbered
2. List
**Bold** and _Italic_ and `Code` text
[Link](url) and ![Image](src)
For more details see GitHub Flavored Markdown.
Feels somehow foreign but also vaguely familiar, kind of like the very early days of wordprocessing where one used in-line commands for formatting.
Wordstar anyone? Getting the syntax into your hands and out of your head was the key, as I'm sure it is here too.
Now how do links work? Like This? I guess so. Weird
Images too, I suppose have some syntactical uniqueness.
Just like URL links. How about photos on my computer? Not obvious.
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