Markdown basics

This article covers the everyday markdown you will use most. Myne renders it live: as your cursor leaves a line, the markers fade and the formatting shows; move the cursor back onto the line and the raw markdown returns so you can edit it. Nothing is rewritten, and what you see is a view of the bytes you typed.

Headings

Write headings with # markers, from # Heading 1 through ###### Heading 6. New headings always use this # form. (If you import notes that underline a heading with === or ---, Myne reads and renders them, but it never converts your file to that form.)

You can cycle a line through heading levels with a shortcut (see Shortcuts below).

Emphasis and inline code

• *italic* for italic, **bold** for bold.
• `code` for inline code.
• ==highlight== for a highlighted span (the default yellow); a 5-color palette adds green, blue, pink, and purple, which are stored as <mark class="hl-*"> — see HTML and inline extras. ~sub~ and ^sup^ for subscript and superscript.

Bold, italic, and inline code have toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts.

Lists

• Bullet lists start a line with - .
• Numbered lists start with 1. .
• Task lists use - [ ] for an open item and - [x] for a done one; the checkbox is clickable.

Lists nest by indenting.

Links, quotes, and rules

• Links: [text](https://example.com).
• Block quotes: prefix lines with > .
• Horizontal rule: a line of ---.
• Line breaks and escapes: end a line with a backslash for a hard break, and put a backslash before a character (like \*) to keep it literal.

Definition lists

Myne renders a tight definition list: a term on one line, immediately followed by : definition lines with no blank line between them:

Term
: The definition.
: A second definition of the same term.

Images

An image is ![alt text](path). Myne never fetches a remote image: an image pointing at a web URL is not downloaded, by design, because loading it would reach out to a server and leak that you opened the note. Attachments you add to the vault are covered in Attachments.

Find in note

To find text inside the note you are reading, open the find bar (see Shortcuts). It does a literal, in-note search with a case-sensitivity toggle and no regular expressions. A replace row lets you replace the current match or rewrite every occurrence in one undoable step — see Find and replace in a note. The search runs in memory only; it is not written to disk.

Find looks inside the note you’re reading; to search across every note in your vault, use Search.

Shortcuts