title: Zettelmarkup: Cheat Sheet
role: manual
tags: #manual #reference #zettelmarkup
syntax: zmk
back: 00001007000000
backward: 00001007000000
box-number: 1
copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern <ds@zettelstore.de>
created: 20221209191905
forward: 00000000040001 00001007030000 00001007030100 00001007030200 00001007030300 00001007030400 00001007031000 00001007040000 00001007040100 00001007040200 00001007040310 00001007040322 00001007040324 00001007040330 00001007990000
lang: en
license: EUPL-1.2-or-later
modified: 20250415165510
published: 20250415165510
visibility: public

# Overview

This Zettelmarkup cheat sheet provides a quick overview of many Zettelmarkup elements.
It can not cover any special case.
If you need more information about any of these elements, please refer to the detailed description.

# Basic Syntax

|     |     |
| --- | --- |
| [Text formatting](00001007040100) | `__italic text__` → *italic text*, `**bold text**` → __bold text__, `""quoted text""` → &ldquo;quoted text&rdquo;, `##marked text##` → <mark>marked text</mark> |
| [Text editing](00001007040100) | `>>inserted text>>` → <ins>inserted text</ins>, `~~deleted text~~` → ~~deleted text~~ |
| [Text literal formatting](00001007040200) | `''entered text''` → `entered text`, ```source code``` → `source code`, `==text output==` → `text output` |
| [Superscript, subscript](00001007040100) | `m^^2^^` → m<sup>2</sup>, `H,,2,,O` → H<sub>2</sub>O |
| [Links to other zettel](00001007040310) | `[[Link text|00001007990000]]` → [Link text](00001007990000) |
| [Links to external resources](00001007040310) | `[[Zettelstore|https://zettelstore.de/]]` → [Zettelstore](https://zettelstore.de/) |
| [Embed an image](00001007040322) | `{{Image text|00000000040001}}` → ![Image text](00000000040001) |
| [Embed content of first paragraph](00001007040324) | `{{00001007990000}}` → This Zettelmarkup cheat sheet provides a quick overview of many Zettelmarkup elements.
It can not cover any special case.
If you need more information about any of these elements, please refer to the detailed description. |
| [Footnote](00001007040330) | `text[^footnote]` → text |
| [Special characters / entities](00001007040000) | `&rarr;` → →, `&#x2115;` → ℕ, `&#8987;` → ⌛ |

# Structuring

* [Heading](00001007030300): `=== Heading`, `==== Sub-Heading`
* [Horizontal rule / thematic break](00001007030400): `---`
* [Paragraphs](00001007030000) are separated by an empty line

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# Lists

[Unnumbered list](00001007030200):

    * First list item
    * Second list item
    * Third list item

[Numbered list](00001007030200):

    # Item number 1
    # Item number 2
    # Item number 3

[Description List](00001007030100):

    ; Term
    : Definition
    ; Other Term
    : Definition for other term

# [Tables](00001007031000)

    |=Header|Because|Equal Sign
    |Cell 1.1|Cell 1.2| Cell 1.3
    |Cell 2.1|Cell 2.2