Using Markdown

Markdown is an editing language converted from HTML which allows you to format text using plain text.

Here's how it looks:

Use asterisks to create bold or italicized words.

*italicized words*

**bold words**

Headers

Headers are defined by preceding your text with one or more # corresponding to header levels.

# A Heading

## A Subheading

### A Sub-subheading

Images

The text is inside the brackets is the alternate text that is displayed when the user hovers their mouse over the image, and the link is an online place for that image.

![Image of Pico](https://planning.center/images/uploads/2011/05/pico-dots.jpg?w=300)

The link inside the parentheses should be an link to the image online.

Links

Put the text of the link inside square brackets and the url in parentheses immediately following the square brackets.

[Get Organized!](http://get.planningceteronline.com)

Email Addresses

Put the text of the link inside square brackets and mailto: as well as the email address inside parentheses immediately following the square brackets.

[Email PiCO](mailto:[e-mail])

Lists

Use numbers or asterisks for lists:

1. Pineapple
2. Canadian Bacon

* Peanut Butter
* Jelly