Formatting

You can format text using these additional symbols. Zettel Notes follows Commonmark Markdown specification. Learn more about Commonmark.

Bold

Enclose text with ** or __ eg. **text** or __text__
Rendered as text

Italics

Enclose text with * or _ eg. *text* or _text_
Rendered as text

Spoiler

Enclose text with >!!<
Click to reveal text in viewer mode
You can also long press to copy text in spoiler

Strike-through

Enclose text with ~~ eg. ~~strike~~
Rendered as ~~strike~~

Superscript

Enclose text with ^ eg. ^superscript^
Rendered as ^superscript

Subscript

Enclose text with ~ eg ~subscript~
Rendered as _subscript

Text Higlight

Enclose text with == eg ==highlight==
Rendered as highlight

Heading

Heading is defined as # in front of text
6 Heading levels are supported
eg. # Heading is interpreted as Heading level 1 and ## Heading as level 2

Code Higlighting

2 types of code highlighting is supported
Inline code code
Enclose text with single backtick (`)
Code blocks
Enclose text with three backticks (```) and a new line.

Code blocks

Link

To create a link enclose the description in brackets and link in parentheses.
Eg. [Official Website](https://thedoc.eu.org)
Rendered as Official Website
You can also directly create link without description <https://thedoc.eu.org>.

Lists

Unordered (- Unordered)
Unordered (- Unordered)
Ordered (1. Ordered)
Ordered (2. Ordered)

Blockquote

Defined via > in front of text eg. > this is a blockquote

this is a blockquote

Task lists

Defined via - [ ] in front of text. It is rendered only when bracket is the first thing in line.

Tasks can be ticked from View Mode

[ ] Pending with empty bracket
[x] Completed with x or X in bracket

Custom checkboxes

The character in task bracket can be modified to show different statuses. Following custom checkboxes are support

- [-] Cancelled
- [!] Important
- [?] More Info
- [>] Scheduled.

Thematic break

Use ---, ***, ___ in a new line
rendered as

Comments

Following formats are supported
[comment]: This is a comment
%%comment%%
Comments are not shown in View Mode

Tables

Defined as

|Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---------|----------|
| Row 1   | Row 1    |
| Row 2   | Row 2    |

It will be rendered as

Column 1	Column 2
Row 1	Row 1
Row 2	Row 2

Images

Defined as ![Description](image-location.png)
Image location has to be relative to the note file or use / in start if absolute location is used.

Tip

To use specific width for images use HTML format. For eg. to set image width as 50%, use <img src="https://picsum.photos/id/237/1024/800" width="50%"/>

Footnotes

Footnotes allow you to add references for specific text in a note.

To create a footnote add [1] after the text. eg Text[^1]. Here 1 is identifier and can be any number or word but cannot contain space. Add the footnote reference at the end of the document eg. [1]: this is the reference.

Latex

Inline Latex

To use inline latex, enclose the latex formula in $. eg. $\text{A long division \longdiv{12345}{13}$ .

Block Latex

To use block latex enclose the latex formula with $$ and new line

$$
\text{A long division \longdiv{12345}{13}
$$