Write your first note

Press ⌘N. That’s a new note. Start typing.

Markdown, briefly

Pellet notes are written in markdown — plain text with a few punctuation marks that mean “make this a heading” or “make this bold”. You don’t have to learn it, because Pellet formats as you type, but it’s useful to know it’s there.

The ones worth knowing:

You type	You get
# Big heading	A heading
## Smaller heading	A smaller one
**bold**	bold
*italic*	italic
- item	A bullet
1. item	A numbered list
- [ ] thing	A checkbox you can tick
> quote	An indented quote
`code`	Fixed-width text

The point of markdown is that it’s still readable when you open the file in anything else — Notepad, TextEdit, an email. Nothing is hidden in a format only Pellet can read.

Formatting without typing symbols

Two shortcuts if you’d rather not memorise punctuation:

• Type / at the start of a line for a menu of headings, lists, tables and links. /date and /time insert today’s date or the current time.
• Select some text and a small toolbar appears above it with bold, italic and the rest.

Editing and reading

Pellet shows formatting while you write — the heading looks like a heading, but the # is still there when you put your cursor back on the line. Nothing is hidden from you.

If you want a clean read with no markup at all, ⌘E switches to reading view and back.

Saving

There isn’t a save button. Pellet writes to disk as you go, and keeps a history of earlier versions in case you need to go back.