Markdown is a lightweight markup language used for formatting text documents. It's beauty is in its simplicity. Some common formatting features of Markdown include headings, bold and italic text, lists, links, images, and code blocks. The syntax is simple and easy to use.

Here are couple of examples.

# The great title

This is an h1 or first level heading and will be show as

The great title

## This is a less great title

This is an h2 or second level heading and will be show as

This is less great title

You can also use italic text (_italic text_) and bold text (**bold text**)

Create a list

- One
- two
- there

This will be result:

• One
• two
• there

You can also add an image

![This is an image](http://starwatcher.io/images/alchemist.png)

This will give this result