ThoughtStreams supports the use of Markdown in cards.
Paragraphs
Paragraphs are separated by blank lines.
This is one paragraph.
This is another paragraph.
You don't need to worry about wrapping within a paragraph, just keep typing and typing.
This is one paragraph.
This is another paragraph.
You don't need to worry about wrapping within a paragraph, just keep typing and typing.
Emphasis
Italics and bold are achieved by wrapping with * or **
*This* is *italics* but **this** is **bold**.
This is italics but this is bold.
Lists
Unordered lists use asterisks or hyphens.
Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods.
* one
* two
* three
or
- one
- two
- three
or
* items can be short
* or items can keep going and going and will be wrapped if they extend wider than the space available
Multi-level lists are supported but they require the top-level to be indented as well:
* A
* B
* B1
* B2
* C
- one
- two
- three
or
- one
- two
- three
or
- items can be short
- or items can keep going and going and will be wrapped if they extend wider than the space available
Multi-level lists are supported but they require the top-level to be indented as well:
- A
- B
- B1
- B2
- C
1. one
1. two
1. three
or
1. one
2. two
3. three
- one
- two
- three
or
- one
- two
- three
Links
A bare URL can be made a link by surrounding it with angled brackets.
A link can be given anchor text by using [anchor text](url).
Headings
Different heading levels are achieved with 1–6 initial hashes.
# Level-1 heading
## Level-2 heading
### Level-3 heading
#### Level-4 heading
##### Level-5 heading
###### Level-6 heading
Level-1 heading
Level-2 heading
Level-3 heading
Level-4 heading
Level-5 heading
Level-6 heading
Images
Images are similar to links but are of the form 
If your account supports it, you can host your images on ThoughtStreams and a relative URL will be provided for each image.
Blockquotes
Blockquotes use email-style > preceding each line.
> "The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy"
*Abraham Lincoln*
"The problem with Internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy"
Abraham Lincoln
Code
A span of code can be indicated with a backtick `. Blocks of code are indented with four spaces or surrounded by three backticks.
The variable `x` appears in the code below:
x = 42
The variable x appears in the code below:
x = 42
Thoughtstreams seems to recognize footnote syntax, but the resulting markup seems to be partially-escaped HTML.
Example:
This is body text[^1].
[^1]: This is a footnote
This is body text[^1].
[^1]: This is a footnote
Math
Tex/LaTeX mathematics is supported via MathJax. Inline math should use \(...\) and display math should use either $$...$$ or \[...\].
Einstein said \(E = mc^2\) but he also said
$$R_{\mu \nu} - {1 \over 2}g_{\mu \nu}\,R + g_{\mu \nu} \Lambda = {8 \pi G \over c^4} T_{\mu \nu}$$
Einstein said \(E = mc^2\) but he also said