foam-template/docs/how-to/write-notes-in-foam.md

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

---

This is a table:

Column 1	Column 2
R1C1	R1C2
R2C1	R2C2

You can inline code or

you can create
code blocks