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 wikilink (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

• One
• Two
• 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