Markdown for AI, Notes and Sites: VS Code, Obsidian, Hugo

Markdown is the language of technical writing today. README files, documentation sites, note-taking apps, static site generators and blogs all use it. And now AI tools do too: every chat assistant answers in Markdown, and AI coding agents read their instructions from Markdown files.

Whether you are a developer, a DevOps engineer, a technical writer, or anyone who writes notes and docs, this course was created specifically for you.

The course is divided into four parts:

1. Markdown basics. Headings, bold and italics, lists, tables, code, links and images: the syntax you will use every day.

2. Beyond the basics, in VS Code. We set up VS Code as a Markdown workbench with a live preview and the Outline view. Then we use GitHub Flavored Markdown (task lists, aligned tables, autolinks, footnotes and alerts), draw diagrams with Mermaid, write math with KaTeX, and add YAML front matter, the metadata that Hugo, Obsidian and documentation sites read.

3. Markdown and AI. Why AI assistants answer in Markdown, how to structure your prompts with it, how to write the instruction files (AGENTS and CLAUDE files) that tell AI coding agents how to work on your project, and how to clean up AI-written Markdown with markdownlint.

4. Markdown at work. Three of the best-known applications built on Markdown: Obsidian for notes, Hugo for blazingly fast static websites, and Ghost for blogs.

One running example, a small Python notes project, carries through the new sections, so every lecture builds on the last one. Every new lecture comes with a downloadable handout that summarizes it.

The course stays practical and to the point. I know how precious your time is, so I only give you what you need to master the skill.

Feel free to watch the free preview lectures. If you like what you see, hit the Enroll button. You have nothing to lose: Udemy gives you a 30-day money-back guarantee. I'll be waiting for you in lecture one.