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Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown

I know this is an old question, but I don't see a very detailed answer of the possibilities to strikethrough your text. So here's my answer: There are several ways to do it: <strike>strike</...
34 votes

Can a card in Trello display a table?

You can sort of fake it by using three backticks (```) to create a code block like this: ``` | Tables | Are | Cool | | ------------- |:-------------:| -----:| | col 3 is | ...
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How can Google Docs and markdown play nice?

A Google Docs document encodes everything in 'elements' within the Kix editor that it's all based on (it's closed source as basically this is the big trade secret, with which anyone else could run ...
18 votes

Markdown formatting in Google Keep?

Unfortunately, no. There does not appear to be any formatting options available, other than things like lists and note color.
10 votes

Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown

Use ~ to enclose whatever you want to strike. Here's a GIF. Just use ~ character at the start and the end in markdown. ~strike~
9 votes

How do I create a checklist in a slack message?

I found it! Wow I had this same issue - Here's the thing. You have to 'Create a Post' using the lightening bolt - not by just typing it into slack. When you click on the lightening bolt, there's a ...
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Using markdown in Trello to populate email subject and body

You need to use %20 to represent spaces. Here is the correct code: [Click here to open a template email](mailto:abc@xyz.com?Subject=Subject%20Text&Body=Thank%20you)
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Can GitHub Pages render asciidoc?

Jekyll does support rendering AsciiDoc via a plugin, however this isn't part of the default GitHub Pages Jekyll setup. GitHub lets you configure Jekyll plugins by adding them to the _config.yml file. ...
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How can Google Docs and markdown play nice?

Preview Markdown Add-on for Google Docs gets my work done, it shows markdown preview in realtime in the sidebar with syntax highlighting. I like to use Google Docs and I love the simplicity of ...
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How can Google Docs and markdown play nice?

I recommend Markdown Preview Is a simple Add-on that (just) makes previews of the markdown document you are creating. As far I understand, the main request is to preview it, so I think this is what ...
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Markdown to insert and display an image on GitHub repo

I like to test my Markdown locally before pushing somewhere viewable only through a URL. So I want a relative URL that I can use anywhere. GitHub now supports those. Your images subdirectory, ...
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stackedit.io support

There's no help document that I know, just a quick introduction the first time you open Stackedit in a new browser. However, for your question about Dropbox, I happen to know from using various apps ...
3 votes

How to do bold and italic formatting in Facebook Chat

This is what Facebook officially says ╔═══════════════════╤══════════╤═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Format │ Example │ Instructions ...
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How can Google Docs and markdown play nice?

One-way pandoc solution for Github-Flavored Markdown (GFM) .md with embedded MathJax-based LaTeX to Google Docs: Offline, convert to .docx: pandoc --from=markdown_github+tex_math_dollars --to docx ...
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Can a card in Trello display a table?

Yes, download the Trello Table Markdown Chrome extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgifaolbebmlmfafkgngfjchfpcpndig Or better yet: download the full featured Trello Cards Optimizer ...
3 votes

Markdown for Blogger

I'll rewrite @pajju's answer, because this was the path I chose and I think it works well, although I'll include examples. The source page is this: http://dvdotsenko.blogspot.in/2012/08/markdown-with-...
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Two types of Markdown files (?) in Google Drive

If you look at the file details for the blue-icon Markdown files and the non-blue-icon files, they probably have different file types. Below are two .md files; the first was saved in Windows Notepad ...
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2 votes

Can I turn off Markdown in Trello?

Trello now lets you do code blocks: ``` your unformatted text here ```
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Can a card in Trello display a table?

if migrating to a different planning app is an option for you, then have a look at Favro. you can import your entire trello board easily, so nothing gets lost. then you will be able to make use of ...
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How to do bold and italic formatting in Facebook Chat

Here are the 3 known text formatting ways on Facebook. *This is Bold* _This is italic_ ~This is Strikethrough~ `This will write Consolas font-style and disable the text formatting inside it`
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How do I write an asterisk at the beginning of a line in wiki syntax without transforming into a list item?

The other answers didn't seem to work for me in an Azure DevOps\VSTS wiki (which purports to be 'markdown'). What did work was using '\' as an escape character i.e. \* Hello world, this sentence is ...
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Can't get markdown to work on wordpress.com

The "Visual" tab doesn't expand Markdown to HTML. Use the Preview button instead.
2 votes
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How to add TWO blank lines to comment in Trello

You can prevent a blank line from being merged with surrounding blank lines by pasting a Unicode space character on the line you want to keep. I tested this using U+202F (Narrow No-Break Space) ...
2 votes

How to change the Edit mode in stackedit.io to right to left only at certain rows?

It's possible but requires quite a bit of programming. StackEdit accepts custom extensions where you can add extra functionality to it. See UserCustom extensions · benweet/stackedit Wiki Custom ...
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Markdown editor on GitHub

Indeed, Github flavoured markdown is significantly better than the MD supported here on stackexchange. However, it is true that you don't get a toolbar to help you. It is expected that you know some ...
2 votes
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What is a cut and paste approach to converting a chunk of a google spreadsheet to markdown table?

Actually the answer is trivial: Google webapps has MarkdownTableMaker https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdowntablemaker/cofkbgfmijanlcdooemafafokhhaeold?hl=en Works reasonably well.
2 votes

Markdown formatting in Google Keep?

It is now possible to do this using the Chrome extension Google Keep PowerUp. You just need to label a note as 'markdown' or a custom label which can be specified in the settings.
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What Markdown tags are previewed by Dropbox?

The only official list of supported Markdown tags in Dropbox you can get (as help article mentions) by logging in Dropbox Paper hitting Ctrl+/ (⌘+/):
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GitHub markdown shortcut to treat text as code?

In the GitHub editor, a button that looks like <> simply inserts a grave accent ` (also known as a "backtick") around the selected text. I don't see that there's a keyboard shortcut for it, ...
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What Markdown tags are previewed by Dropbox?

Here's a link to the official documentation on formatting options available in Dropbox: Formatting a Dropbox Paper doc It also contains the available markdown tags supported by Dropbox Paper doc.

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