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

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.

This is a wikilink (aka internal link) to note-properties.

Here is an image:

this is a blockquote
it can span multiple lines

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