Formatting & Markdown

Cozy runs on plain Markdown. Your formatting (bold, headings, lists, links) is written right into the file as ordinary Markdown symbols, so your entries stay readable in any app, forever.

You don’t have to know Markdown to use it, though. Cozy gives you a toolbar and shortcuts, and shows the symbols only when you’re editing the text they belong to.

The floating toolbar

Select any text and a small toolbar floats just above it, with Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Code, Highlight, Link, Quote, Heading, and Lists one click away. No hunting through menus.

Keyboard shortcuts

On macOS these use ⌘; on Windows and Linux they use Ctrl. Cozy shows the right keys for your keyboard throughout the app.

Action	Shortcut
Bold	⌘B
Italic	⌘I
Headings (levels 1–6)	⌘1 – ⌘6
Bullet list	⌘⇧8
Numbered list	⌘⇧7
Writing mode	⌘⇧F

Checkboxes work with -, *, or + bullets, so a line like - [ ] water the plants becomes a checkable to-do.

Formatting reveals itself as you write

Put your cursor anywhere inside a bold word, a link, or an image and its Markdown appears so you can edit it, then tucks away again the moment you move on. Click anywhere on a heading and its # shows; leave, and it’s hidden. You get clean text to read and the raw Markdown right when you need it.

Insert a date or time

Use Insert → Date/Time to drop a formatted date or time into your entry. Dates render in English throughout the app, whatever your system language is set to.

A serif option

If you like to write in a serif typeface, you can switch the editor’s font to serif. It’s a small thing, but a nice one for long entries.

It’s still just Markdown

Because everything is plain Markdown, you can open an entry in any other editor and it reads exactly as you’d expect. Nothing about your writing is locked to Cozy.