What is markdown?

Every time you're on the internet, you're engaging with markdown without even realizing it! In this video, Carlos breaks down what markdown is, how it's used, and why it's such a valuable tool for so many people.
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[@diarmaidmac2149]

Thank you for having no annoying background music to distract from your excellent explanation.

[@omarsalem8731]

I had to come here and post a thank you comment. This guy knows how to explain things. Thank you so much Mr. Carlos :)

[@kraqdown]

Years later, and this is helping people. I decided to switch to Joplin, as part of my open-source app journey and this helped and saved a lot of time. Now I must learn markdown since my use is technical documentation.

[@YokomoHoyo]

This presentation is outstanding.

[@davyncox5005]

*But does it work in KZbin comments?* _It does but with a different syntax_

[@Fredd922]

Thanks for the good explanation and also the clean voice with no vocal fry. It's gold now-a-days.

[@mmek-abasiekon4389]

Thank you so much. I was confused about Markdown before now, but you have explained it so well that I can take on a Markdown project.

[@genkiferal7178]

You are a wonderful teacher - explained very well, many things other YT videos didn't inform me of.

[@yuhceeofficial]

Nice introduction to markdown. Clears off some ambiguity. Thanks

[@abobakr.youssiekiroo2924]

wow

[@lifecoachrona7366]

such a simple yet comprehensive explanation. --well done! thank you.

[@yabinka]

Plain and simple . Easy to understand. Thank you

[@TomGalland]

Great video! Extremely simple to understand Markdown

[@GaborGubicza]

Great concise understandable tutorial straight to the point. Great job, thank you!

[@kwamsahortor]

Clear and simple, yet very informative. Thanks man.

[@a.s.l711]

I really appreciate the video explaining the meaning of curve bracket, bracket, slashes so it’s easier for me to learn programming as just remembering the function is hard. Like I understand curly bracket represents a list in mathematics.

[@Pranauv]

Thank you ! Great explanation and informative!

[@MohammadMehdi_1889]

Thank you it helped me a lot ❤️🙏🏻

[@careervest]

thank you mark down seems very cool. and i wish it had a wider range of application

[@fathah9298]

thank you this was useful

[@zrezaeimobin]

This was a great tutorial.

[@sadaffatima853]

awesome explaination

[@plea5185]

Thank you!

[@JibHyourinmaru]

it's the same when I'm using obsidian. basically I'm been using markdown the whole time. now I know lol amazing explanation btw

[@abuabdullah9878]

Amazing video

[@darwin6984]

Hi Super Excellent movie May I ask a question what is R Markdown?

[@rezakhakpour7549]

thanks man

[@tayedshahrear6838]

Thanks

[@azcam8912]

Nice

[@joansome951]

**Thank you**

[@generalmalaise2930]

*yeah*

[@littlefrank90]

Grande sossio

[@anonymoususer3561]

Interesting

[@theoligarchist1503]

what about pdf ?

[@generalmalaise2930]

**yes**

[@JD-kf2ki]

**This is only a test**

[@ethanpark9290]

*cough* ~hey~

[@netsaosa4973]

markmiddle

[@Giovanniko1]

Find the accent a little hard at times as some of the words get chewed. Content is good, but slowing down would maybe help to get those missed words, especially for students from non-english speaking countries. Thanks!

[@knowledg3r]

**How is this looking?**

[@johnraaum5143]

*test*

[@johnraaum5143]

Test passed

[@victorrafael-ys4is]

ngl sometimes his accent makes it hard to understand some words...

[@villemononen5303]

Oh, that's neat! Probably the best shortest format for basic text styling that i've come across. It makes sense, and it could be great with notes / documentation / emails / web in general. I'll put it to use. Thanks for the nice video, well done! I'm becoming a print shop owner, and currently thinking of ways to speed up processes for better efficiency. One of those aspects include working with PDF files, and so far the PDF-XChange Editor is putting Adobe Acrobat to a shame. Great speed combined with nice tools and excellent customizing possibilities. One of it's plugins was called "Markdown to PDF", and i was wondering what is Markdown? Well, here we are :)

[@HostDotPromo]

Markdown is a must to learn.

[@DisperseControl]

I really don't see the point. Markdown is still a form of syntax that you have to memorize. Seems like a waste of memory space from my perspective when I could just use HTML instead. If I have to learn one or the other either way I pick HTML. I'm also lucky in that I have known basic HTML syntax since I was a little kid. If you are trying to develop a powerful, professional grade website than HTML seems like a must. Most emails are also HTML compatible. I like the idea though of using it on Github. Thank you for the video!

[@wombat7961]

so many blogging platforms and chatrooms use it - so if you ever want to clearly write and communicate, then the readers will greatly appreciate your ability to perform!

[@branpod]

The way I see it is that it’s not for designing websites, but rather just a fast and simple way to format text documents. Maybe that’s not it’s intended use, but it’s how I use it. If you want to take notes (without the annoyance of messing around with Microsoft Word formatting menus), markdown is a far more viable option than html.