Markdown 101: A hands-on guide

You want to invest 10 minutes that impact your productivity sustainably? Have a short look at Markdown!
GitHub, Swift, IntelliJ, RStudio, StackExchange, reddit, OpenStreetMap and many more software tools make use of Markdown to create readme files, documentations and even interactive applications. Markdown combines several advantages: it's easy to learn, efficient to use and provides a huge amount flexibility. Once you have a file in Markdown format, you can easily convert it to other formats such as HTML, LaTex, EPUB, MediaWiki markup and more.