Markdown Easy Shortcuts
Easily write to markdown using snippet, shortcuts and specific automations for markdown documents
Commands
Command |
Description |
Markdown Shortcuts: Bold Text |
Bold text |
Markdown Shortcuts: Italic Text |
Italic text |
Markdown Shortcuts: Table of contents |
Create table of contents |
Markdown Shortcuts: Update table contents |
Update table of contents |
Table of contents
With this extension, you can easily generate a Table of Contents and choose its depth with the keyboard combination CTRL+T
, and every time you add a new section that should be inserted in the Table of Contents because of its depth corresponding to the desired one, pressing again the keyboard combination CTRL+T
will update the Table of Contents

⚠️: With the creation of the Table of Contents some generated comments will be present in your file, do not delete those comments
⚠️: If you want to change the depth of the generated Table of Contents, it is necessary to change the depth specified in the comment <!-- toc start: (desired depth) [do not erase this comment] -->
Shortcuts
Shortcut |
Description |
CTRL+B |
Bold text |
CTRL+I |
Italic text |
ALT+X |
Check/Uncheck todo item (if you have cursor on the line) |
CTRL+T |
Create a table of contents |
CTRL+D |
Copy the current line in a new line, or selected text in the current line |

⚠️: If any shortcut doesn't work, check the Keyboard Shortcuts
in Visual Studio Code
and check if there is any conflict for that key combination
Snippets
Snippet |
Description |
docs |
Implements a structure for the documentation |
code |
Insert grave accent in order to write code(``) |
mcode |
Insert grave accent to write multiline code |
right_arrow |
Insert right arrow in HTML code |
left_arrow |
Insert left arrow in HTML code |
table-n |
Insert a table with n columns and 1 row |
todo |
Starts a todo list |

Automatic lists
This extension implements an automation when you write lists into the markdown document.

Also the todo lists are dinamically, and you can use a shortcut ALT+X
to check/uncheck a todo item.

External links
GitHub
Visual Studio Marketplace
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