Markdown Editor — Live Preview

Markdown is a lightweight markup language created by John Gruber in 2004. It lets you write formatted text using plain-text syntax — for example, wrapping text in **double asterisks** makes it bold, and prefixing a line with # creates a heading. Markdown is widely used in README files, documentation sites, blogs, and note-taking apps because it is easy to read in its raw form and converts cleanly to HTML.

Use the syntax [link text](URL). For example, [ShortcutCircle](https://shortcutcircle.com) renders as a clickable hyperlink. You can also add an optional title: [link text](URL "Title text"). For images, use an exclamation mark at the start: .

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the native language of web pages and uses angle-bracket tags like <h1>, <p>, and <strong>. Markdown is a simpler syntax designed for human readability that gets converted to HTML. Markdown is faster to write and easier to read in its raw form, but HTML gives you finer control. Most Markdown processors also allow raw HTML inside a Markdown document when you need features Markdown does not cover.