How to format text with bullets in Comment activity

It has always been a little annoying that the Comment activity doesn’t respect carriage returns and just smushes everything together. But did you know you can do bullets?

If you put a dash at the beginning of a line, it makes it a bullet. If you put a space then a dash, it makes it a sub-bullet. If you put two spaces then a dash it makes it a sub-bullet of the sub-bullet!

- Top level bullet
 - Sub bullet
  - Sub sub bullet
  - Sub sub bullet
 - Sub bullet
  - Sub Sub bullet
- Top level bullet
 - Sub bullet
  - Sub sub bullet

I wish it didn’t add the extra line after each bullet, it wastes space, but it’s still better than nothing. I wonder what other formatting tricks there are.

You can also use * instead of the - to get bullets:

Double underscore makes the text italic:

A single * before and after makes it bold!

If you put \\ and an empty line, it does do the line break:

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You can combine them:

If you find any other formatting tricks, add them here!

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