Obsidian Flavored Markdown

Obsidian strives for maximum capability without breaking any existing formats. As a result, we use a combination of flavors of Markdown.

Obsidian supports CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and LaTeX. Obsidian does not support using Markdown formatting or blank lines inside of HTML tags.

Supported Markdown extensions

Syntax Description
[[Link]] Internal links
![[Link]] Embed files
![[Link#^id]] Block references
^id Defining a block
[^id] Footnotes
%%Text%% Comments
~~Text~~ Strikethroughs
==Text== Highlights
``` Code blocks
- [ ] Incomplete task
- [x] Completed task
> [!note] Callouts
(see link) Tables