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.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

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

| | R1C1 | R1C2 | | R2C1 | R2C2 |

You can inline code or

you can create
code blocks