Text Formatting
Atlas.md allows you to add formatting to text to make your notes more organized and easier to read.
Below we’ll demonstrate examples of some basic syntax that you can use to format your content.
Bold
To bold text, add two asterisks before and after a word or phrase.
- Formatting
- Output
**Bold text**really makes my sentences pop.- Bold text really makes my sentences pop
Italic
To italicize text, add one asterisk or underscore before and after a word or phrase.
- Formatting
- Output
- Sometimes you just
*really*need to italicize words in your sentence. - Sometimes you just really need to italicize words in your sentence.
Bold and italic
If you want to bold and italicize text, add three asterisks before and after a word or phrase.
- Formatting
- Output
- This text is
***very important***. - This text is very important.
Blockquote
To create a blockquote, add a > in front of a paragraph.
> Please take 100mg of acetaminophen.
The output looks like this:
Please take 100mg of acetaminophen.
Lists
You can use formatting to organize information into ordered and unordered lists.
Ordered lists
To create an ordered list, insert a number followed by a period before the items on your list.
- Formatting
- Output
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
4. Fourth item- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Fourth item
Unordered lists
To create an unordered list, insert dashes (-), asterisks (*), or plus signs (+) in front of the items on your list.
- Formatting
- Output
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Fourth item- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Fourth item
- Formatting
- Output
* First item
* Second item
* Third item
* Fourth item- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Fourth item
- Formatting
- Output
+ First item
+ Second item
+ Third item
+ Fourth item- First item
- Second item
- Third item
- Fourth item
Horizontal Rule
To create a horizontal rule across the entire page to indicate a page break, insert three hyphens on a blank line. For example:
This is where the section ends.
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This is where the next section begins.