Orcanote Markdown

Orca Note Flavored Markdown Skill

This skill enables skills-compatible agents to create and edit valid Orca Note Flavored Markdown, including all Orca Note-specific syntax extensions.

Overview

Orca Note uses a combination of Markdown flavors:

• CommonMark
• GitHub Flavored Markdown
• LaTeX for math
• Orca Note-specific extensions (auto headings, highlights, callouts, etc.)

Basic Formatting

Paragraphs and Line Breaks

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph (blank line between creates separate paragraphs).

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4

Maximum heading level is 4 (####).

Text Formatting

| Style | Syntax | Example | Output | |-------|--------|---------|--------| | Bold | **text** or __text__ | **Bold** | Bold | | Italic | *text* or _text_ | *Italic* | Italic | | Bold + Italic | ***text*** | ***Both*** | Both | | Strikethrough | ~~text~~ | ~~Striked~~ | ~~Striked~~ | | Highlight | ==text== | ==Highlighted== | ==Highlighted== | | Inline code | ` code | code | code` |

Escaping Formatting

Use backslash to escape special characters:

\*This won't be italic\*
\#This won't be a heading
1\. This won't be a list item

Common characters to escape: \*, \_, \#, ` \ `, \|, \~`

Link to Blocks

[[BlockID]]
[[Block Alias]]

Block ID is a number.

Markdown-Style Links

[Display Text](https://example.com)
[Link used outside of Orca Note](orca-note://[repo]/block?blockId=[blockId])

Note: Spaces must be URL-encoded as %20 in Markdown links.

Images, Videos & Audios

Video/Audio Timestamps

{01:59:59}
{59:59}

Callouts

Basic Callout

> [!note]
> This is a notice callout.

Nested Callouts

> [!info]
> Outer callout
> > [!note]
> > Inner callout

Supported Callout Types

| Type | Description | |------|-------------| | info | Blue, info icon | | warning | Orange, warning icon | | error | Red, exclamation icon | | tip | Green, bulb icon | | important | Purple, exclamation icon | | note | Grey, note icon |

Lists

Unordered Lists

- Item 1
- Item 2
  - Nested item
  - Another nested
- Item 3

Ordered Lists

1. First item
2. Second item
   1. Nested numbered
   2. Another nested
3. Third item

Task Lists

- [ ] Incomplete task
- [x] Completed task
- [ ] Task with sub-tasks
  - [ ] Subtask 1
  - [x] Subtask 2

Quotes

> This is a blockquote.
> It can span multiple lines.
>
> And include multiple paragraphs.
>
> > Nested quotes work too.

Code

Inline Code

Use `backticks` for inline code.
Use double backticks for ``code with a ` backtick inside``.

Code Blocks

````markdown

Plain code block

// Syntax highlighted code block
function hello() {
  console.log("Hello, world!");
}

# Python example
def greet(name):
    print(f"Hello, {name}!")

````

Tables

| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Cell 1   | Cell 2   | Cell 3   |
| Cell 4   | Cell 5   | Cell 6   |

Math (LaTeX)

Inline Math

This is inline math: $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$

Block Math

$$
\begin{vmatrix}
a & b \\
c & d
\end{vmatrix} = ad - bc
$$

Common Math Syntax

$x^2$              Superscript
$x_i$              Subscript
$\frac{a}{b}$      Fraction
$\sqrt{x}$         Square root
$\sum_{i=1}^{n}$   Summation
$\int_a^b$         Integral
$\alpha, \beta$    Greek letters

Diagrams (Mermaid)

````markdown

graph TD
    A[Start] --> B{Decision}
    B -->|Yes| C[Do this]
    B -->|No| D[Do that]
    C --> E[End]
    D --> E

````

Whiteboard (Excalidraw)

````markdown

{
  "elements": [...],
  "files": {}
}

````

Horizontal Rules

---
***
___
- - -
* * *

Complete Example

````markdown

Project Alpha

Overview

This project aims to improve workflow using modern techniques.

> [!important] > The first milestone is due on ==January 30th==.

Tasks

• [x] Initial planning
• [x] Resource allocation
• [ ] Development phase
• [ ] Backend implementation
• [ ] Frontend design
• [ ] Testing
• [ ] Deployment

Technical Notes

The main algorithm uses the formula $O(n \log n)$ for sorting.

def process_data(items):
    return sorted(items, key=lambda x: x.priority)

Architecture

graph LR
    A[Input] --> B[Process]
    B --> C[Output]
    B --> D[Cache]

````

References

• See orcanote-mermaid skill for Mermaid syntax and more details.
• See orcanote-whiteboard skill for whiteboard syntax (based on Excalidraw) and more details.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: sethyuan
• Source: sethyuan/orcanote-agent-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.