Using Markdown is different than using a WYSIWYG editor. In an application like Microsoft Word, you click buttons to format words and phrases, and the changes are visible immediately. Markdown isn’t like that. When you create a Markdown-formatted file, you add Markdown syntax to the text to indicate which words and phrases should look different

Markdown has a few implementations. Buttondown starts from Python-Markdown, and we add a handful of extensions & tools to make your editing experience even better.