Flowershow now Supports Full CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown
Flowershow now fully supports the CommonMark and GitHub-Flavored Markdown specs — including tables, footnotes, task lists, and more — making your Markdown render exactly as you wrote it, across any platform.
When we created Flowershow, our mission was simple:
Let people publish beautiful websites quickly and easily from Markdown — without changing how they write.
Today, we’re marking an important milestone in that mission:
Flowershow now supports full CommonMark + GitHub-Flavored Markdown spec.
That means:
💪 Full CommonMark + GFM support
- Headings, paragraphs, line breaks
- Lists (ordered + unordered)
- Blockquotes
- Code blocks + syntax highlighting
- Inline code + emphasis
- Links + autolinks
- Images
- Tables
- Footnotes
- Task lists
- Strikethrough
- Emoji & shortcodes
- HTML inline tags
If Markdown renders correctly in CommonMark-compliant tools, GitHub, or modern editors, it should now “just work” in Flowershow.
✨ Extended Markdown features
- Obsidian Wikilinks, embeds and Callouts
- Math equations
- Mermaid charts
- Text highlighting
We maintain a complete list of Markdown, GFM, and extended syntax supported by Flowershow.
👉 https://flowershow.app/docs/syntax
🎯 Why this matters
Markdown began as a lightweight writing format — today it powers blogs, docs, wikis, digital gardens, academic notes, and engineering knowledge bases.
But historically, every platform has implemented Markdown a little differently.
That leads to friction:
Write in one tool → fix formatting in another → adjust for your website → tweak again for GitHub…
Flowershow aims to fix that.
- Write once using most popular Markdown flavors: CommonMark and GFM
- Publish
- Keep the exact meaning & formatting you wrote
Markdown is the open web’s content layer — and Flowershow treats it that way.
🧭 What’s next: Deep Obsidian integration
CommonMark + GFM was just Stage 1.
Next, we're doubling down on Obsidian-native features:
Coming soon:
- 📎 Note transclusions (
![[my-note]]) - 🧩 Canvas publishing + embeds
- 🧠 Obsidian Bases support
- 💬 Obsidian-style comments ()
- 🎨 Better support for Excalidraw
- 🧘♀️ Seamless publishing experience
If your workflow lives in Obsidian — Flowershow is evolving to be the publishing engine your vault deserves.
🚀 Final note
Already using Flowershow and found something weird?
- Open an issue
- Drop feedback in Discord
- Or leave a comment below!
We want Flowershow to be the most compatible Markdown publishing system — period. If we missed something, tell us, and we’ll fix it fast.
Your vault is our roadmap.
–Flowershow team 💐
