Here is a basic guide to Markdown. If you would like a tutorial for more complex things such as lists, tables etc comment below!

What is Markdown?
Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

Examples:

Text Lists Images Headers & Quotes Code Extras
It's very easy to make some words ** bold ** and other words * italic * with Markdown. You can even [link to Google!](http:// google .com)

Just remove the spaces in the words and boom!
It's very easy to make some words bold and other words italic with Markdown. You can even link to Google!

Syntax guide
Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use on Steemit or in your own text files.

Headers

This is an < h1 > tag

This is an < h2 > tag

This is an < h6 > tag

Emphasis

.* This text will be italic *
_ This will also be italic _

** This text will be bold **
__ This will also be bold __

_ You ** can ** combine them _
You can combine them

Any word wrapped with two tildes like ~~ this ~~ will appear crossed out.

Most things on here were taken from https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/ so be sure to check it out!