Markdown is a way of writing and formatting rich text using plain text formatting syntax. Basically, it is a lightweight markup language, using which we can create richly formatted text. The main intention behind its invention was to provide users with a markup language, that would appeal to its readers, even in its source code form, and thus make text formatting easier. 

In this cheat sheet, we will discuss some of the major features of markdown along with the code syntaxes and examples which will allow the reader to make richly-formatted text articles by themselves.