How Notion Notion flavors its Extended Markdown Syntax Extended Markdown Syntax

This note is an experiment to see how Notion handles Markdown. This page was originally written in Notion. I see here, now, in Obsidian that Obsidian handles the exact same feature set. Neat. Obsidian also has a mechanism for storing highlights to plain text. So that’s nice.

Fully supported in Markdown:


Headings

Two

Thru Three

Something bold Something italic Something both Something striken Something in code

Block quotes

  • Unordered Lists
  • I expect are fine.
  1. Ordered lists
  2. are too
  • Task one
  • Task two is checked

https://google.com ← inferred link

A forced link there ← explicit link

# Headings

## Two

### Thru Three

Something **bold**
Something *italic*
Something ***both***
Something ~~striken~~
Something in `code`

> Block quotes
> 
- Unordered Lists
- I expect are fine.
1. Ordered lists
2. are too
- [ ]  Task one
- [x]  Task two is checked

https://google.com ← inferred link

[A forced link there](https://google.com) ← explicit link

Note “mom” in the table lost its boldness

Sort of Supported

These are non-standard markdown, but DO keep some styling info


Column AColumn B
Row 2Hi
Row 3Mom

👉 This is a callout

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1508739773434-c26b3d09e071?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=85&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=srgb

graph
	a --> b
$$
|x| = 5
$$

| Column A | Column B |
| --- | --- |
| Row 2 | Hi |
| Row 3 | Mom |

> [!tldr] 👉 This is a callout
> 

!https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1508739773434-c26b3d09e071?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=85&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=srgb

```mermaid
graph
	a --> b

# Features lost to plain text

---

Something underlined. 
Something yellow. 
Something highlighted.

- Toggles are turned into regular lists
    
    But contained blocks *are* indented, at least
    

Something underlined. Something yellow. Something highlighted.

  • Toggles are turned into regular lists

    But contained blocks are indented, at least


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### Source


# Source

Determined through experimentation.

### Related
- [[Markdown]] 
- [[Notion]] 
- [[Extended Markdown Syntax]]