Obsidian.md Markdown Cheat Sheet

Basic Text Editing

Bold Text

**This is some bold text**

Italics

*This is italicized text*

Block Quotes

> Block Quote

Underline

There is no native way to underline in obsidian.md. However, you can use HTML to underline your text to do so you can use the following code:

<u>This text will be underlined</u>

Lists and Checklists

Ordered Lists

1. This
2. is an
3. Ordered list
  1. Indent by pressing tab

Unordered List

- This
- is an
- Ordered list
  - Indent by pressing tab

Check Lists

- [] This
- [] is an
- [] Ordered list
  - [] Indent by pressing tab

Linking, Aliases and Embedding

Link to a page

[[Page to link to]]

Link to a text block on a page

[[Page Link^block to link to]]

Link to a page heading

[[Page Link#The Heading]]

Link Alias

[[Page Link|Alias]]

External Link / URL

[text](https://urltolinkto.com)

Embedded Link

![[Page Name]]

Embed a paragraph

![[Page Name^block to link to]]

Embed heading and subsequent content

![[Page Name#heading to link to]]

Headings and Horizontal Rules

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Horizontal Rule

---

Heading 1 Alternative

This is some text

---

Code Blocks / Code Fences

Code Block / Code Fence

```html
some code here
```

```javascript
var myVar = 1;
```

Tables

Table

| Syntax      | Description |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| Header      | Title       |
| Paragraph   | Text        |

Note: we highly recommend you install a plugin to assist with tables.

Footnotes

Text with foot note[^1]

lorem ipsum

[^1]: Footnote

You can also insert footnotes directly into text like this:

This is some text. Some More text
This text has a foot note ^[Foot Note Text]

Embed Image

Embed an Image

![[picture.jpg]]

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Basic Text Editing

Lists and Checklists

Linking, Aliases and Embedding

Headings and Horizontal Rules

Code Blocks / Code Fences

Tables

Footnotes

Embed Image

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