Using Markdown in Shortcut

Shortcut uses a modified version of the popular text formatting syntax Markdown. For a complete reference, visit http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Headers

# This is a header.
## This is a subheader.

Emphasis

*This text will be italic.*
_This will also be italic._

**This text will be bold.**
__This will also be bold.__

Unordered Lists

* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b

Ordered Lists

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b

Blockquotes

> The HTML blockquote Element
> indicates that the enclosed
> text is an extended quotation.

Strikethrough

~~This text will be strikethroughed~~

Tables

First Header  | Second Header
------------- | -------------
Content Cell | Content Cell
Content Cell | Content Cell

Emoji

:zap: :bowtie: :zap:

Images

![Optional Alt Text](url)
![My Logo](http://example.com/logo.png)

Links

[Example](http://example.com)

Plain old URLs work too!
http://example.com

Story Links

This is blocked by #123.
See also: #345, #1102
ch415
https://app.shortcut.com/flyingrobots/story/39/story-markdown
https://app.shortcut.com/flyingrobots/story/39

Inline code

Your code is missing the `var` keyword.

Code blocks

Without syntax highlighting:

```
body {
text-decoration: blink;
}
```

With syntax highlighting:

```js
var myCoolRollover = new Image();
myCoolRollover.src = 'myCoolRollover.gif';
```

Available highlighters:

coffeescript, apache, http, cs, java, sql, nginx, xml, diff, javascript, clojure, go, bash, objectivec, markdown, json, python, ruby, cpp, css, php, perl, ini, makefile

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