Editing posts using Markdown

In addition to utilizing HTML to edit your posts here inside of Tumblr, you can…also use something known as Markdown.…Now, if you're familiar with Markdown, chances are you love it; everybody I…know that uses it does.…If you're not familiar with it, it might be something you want to look into to…edit your post in Tumblr.…It just depends on how you like to work, and whether or not you're comfortable…enough to utilize it.…In order to turn Markdown on here inside of Tumblr, you have to go right up here…to this little gear, and launch your Preferences.…Once I get into the Preferences, I'll scroll down, and find where it says Edit posts using.…

Now, we've already turned on plain text and HTML, but if I want to enable…Markdown, I simply click right here.…If you're not sure what Markdown is, or if you just need a refresher on how to…use it, you can click this little question mark…here, and it'll launch the Daring Fireball Web site, where you'll be able to…learn all about Markdown.…Basically, Markdown is a text to HTML conversion tool for Web writers.…