Documentation

Practical guides for writing, rendering, organizing, presenting, and protecting your work. The same guides are available inside the vault under /MDash/Docs.

Looking for a quick answer? Visit the Frequently Asked Questions.

• Getting Started

  Start writing in MDash, understand automatic browser saving, choose a view, find essential tools, and prepare the workspace for offline use.

• Vault Workflow

  Organize MDash files and folders, manage tabs, search the vault, recover Trash, inspect properties, and make link-safe changes.

• Markdown Guide

  Learn MDash Markdown syntax with examples of text alignment, formatting, tables, links, alerts, code, emoji, symbols, footnotes, and references.

• Code and Syntax Highlighting

  Learn how to write inline code and fenced code blocks, choose Shiki language tags, copy code, and troubleshoot syntax highlighting in MDash.

• Math and KaTeX Guide

  Write accessible inline and display math with KaTeX, including fractions, roots, matrices, aligned equations, sums, products, integrals, and cases.

• Mermaid Diagrams Guide

  Create and edit Mermaid flowcharts, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, mindmaps, timelines, Kanban boards, and more in MDash.

• Wiki-Links Guide

  Connect Markdown notes with wiki-links, aliases, autocomplete, unresolved-note creation, backlink context, and predictable vault-wide resolution.

• Frontmatter and Metadata

  Use YAML frontmatter to set titles, descriptions, tags, authors, review dates, document direction, presentation themes, and export metadata.

• Presentation Mode

  Turn a Markdown document into a themed 16:9 slide deck, present with keyboard controls, and export the finished presentation to PDF.

• Themes and Direction

  Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance; select an accent; and control automatic, LTR, or RTL direction for multilingual Markdown documents.

• Keyboard Shortcuts

  Use MDash keyboard shortcuts for editing, navigation, files, views, search, formatting, presentations, and accessible keyboard operation.

• Privacy and Local Storage

  Understand where MDash stores data, which network requests it can make, what analytics records, how shared URLs work, and how to reset local content.

• Import, Export, and Backup

  Import Markdown, text, and code files; export documents and folders; share by URL; and create complete MDash backups that can be restored later.