GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown
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Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to…
Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to all Markdown documents in repositories and wikis. So now, when you write:
It will render like this, everywhere on GitHub:

Edit the document or wiki page and use the - [ ] and - [x] syntax to update your task list.
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. ✨