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I wish i would have known about markdown much before!

So are you familiar with markdown?If not,then let's have a look at it together.

Here's all you need to about Markdown.

What's Markdown?

• It's a lightweight markup language with a plain text formatting syntax.
• It can be converted into HTML/XHTML and other formats.
• It's main purpose is readability and ease of use.

What is it used for?

• README files(Github,etc.) in documentation.
• Forum and blog posts.
• Used in many static site generators.
• Used to create websites, documents, notes, books, presentations, email messages, and technical documentation.

Markdown features:

• Portability:Markdown is portable i.e. you can import your markdown files from one markdown application to another.
• Platform-independent:Markdown is platform-independent i.e. you can create markdown-formatted text on any device running any operating system.
• Future-proof:Even if the application you are working on stops working at some time in future,you will still be sble to resd you markdown formatted text using a text editing application.
• Everywhere:Markdown is everywhere.Websites like Reddit and Github supports markdown, and lots of web-based and desktop applications supports it.

Somethings you can format using Markdown::

• Headings
• Lists
• Emphasis
• Links
• Block of code
• Images
• Block-quotes
• Horizontal rules, etc.

Markdown editors:

• Text-editor extensions.(VsCode, Atom ,etc.)
• MarkPad
• HarooPad
• MarkdownPad2
• Typora ,etc.

Markdown file extension:

Markdown files are generally saved with .md extension.Since it's a text file, you can edit it using Notepad or Notepad++, text edit or any other text editor.And this also justifies why it is future-proof.

You can save it with README.md or by any other file name with .md extension.

Markdown syntax:

Screenshots below show markdown file and some of it's common syntax displayed in VsCode:

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