Writing Notes

Notes are simple text files with some extra flavor, in the shape of Markdown syntax and support for extra properties (see Note Properties).

Foam Syntax

Foam uses standard markdown, with a few added twists:

• the title of a note (e.g. in the Graph Visualization) is given by precedence based on:
  • the title property (see Note Properties)
  • the first # heading 1 of the file
  • the file name

Markdown Syntax

With markdown we can style our notes in a simple way, while keeping the document a simple text file (the best way to future-proof your writings!).

You can see the formatted output by running the Markdown: Open Preview to the Side command.

Here is a high level overview of Markdown, for more information on the markdown syntax see here.

This is a link to google.

This is a wiki link (aka internal link) to Note Properties.

Here is an image:

this is a blockquote it can span multiple lines

• list item
• list item
• list item

1. One
2. Two
3. Three

This text is in bold and this is italic.

The following is a horizontal rule

This is a table: | Column 1 | Column 2 | | -------- | -------- | | R1C1 | R1C2 | | R2C1 | R2C2 |

You can inline code or

you can create
code blocks