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Markdown in Google Doc?

Just started with blot and planned to use google docs as my editor. I guess markdown doesn't work within Google Documents, altough GD understands some md out of the box (e.g. # headline)

I played around and couldn't get most of the formatting and features to work. I would really like to stay in gd (even with only md for formatting) for convenience and not need any additional txt editor. Anything I am missing, any settings in blot or docs?

Working well: formating based on headlines and line breaks Working semi: links get routed through Google Search (see below); current date based on the doc (but no editing for a future/past pub date possible) Not working: any other formatting (tested: bold, italic, color); tags


a year ago, 2 replies   google-drive   google-docs   Edit question

It's not possible to use Markdown in Google Docs, you have to use their native formatting tools to add formatting to your posts, for now at least

Answered a year ago · Edit answer

You can consider connecting texteditor.co to your google account. It's an add-on that will open a .txt file, view it as markdown, and save it back to your drive. I'm still learning but hope this helps.

Answered a year ago · Edit answer