Markdown shortcuts
If you have written in Markdown, or in a chat app that borrows from it, your fingers already know these. Type the characters and Tesria turns them into formatting as you go. If it changes something you did not mean it to, press Backspace straight away and you get your characters back.
At the start of a line
Type | You get |
|---|---|
# and a space | Heading 1 |
## to ###### and a space | Heading 2 to Heading 6 |
- or * or + and a space | Bullet list |
1. and a space | Ordered list |
[] and a space | Task list |
[x] and a space | Task list, already checked |
> and a space | Blockquote |
``` and Enter | Code block |
```python and Enter | Code block in Python |
--- | Divider |
An ordered list starts from whatever number you type: 4. starts it at 4.
Anywhere in a line
Type | You get |
|---|---|
**text** or __text__ | Bold |
*text* or _text_ | Italic |
~~text~~ | Strikethrough |
`text` | Inline code |
==text== | Highlight |
A web address, then a space | A link |
 | A picture from that address |
Pasting a web address over selected words links the words to it.
Links written as [text](address) stay as they are. Select the words and press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) instead.
Applies to | Tesria 0.5 and later |
|---|---|
Updated | September 24, 2026 |
Changes | Written for Tesria 0.5. |