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Blocks are organised into columns by you.
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PDFs organise blocks into columns automatically.
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Try to keep the columns roughly even in length - it makes the cheat sheets easier to use online.
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This is a one-column block.
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It's useful for listing long items.
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It can also be useful for sequences of steps or commands in programming cheat sheets or recipes.
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Rows have alternating background colours to make the cheat sheet easier to read.
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Block Type:
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Two Columns
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Useful For:
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Translations
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Key / Value Pairs
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Lists of small items
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Multi-Column Items
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If you have an item in column 1 but not column 2, it will span both columns.
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What is this?
A Q&A block displays each question with the answer indented underneath.
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When is it useful?
It's great for question and answer content!
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Red
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Green
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Orange
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Blue
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Use tags - they help people find your cheat sheet!
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Pick a dark colour - it makes your cheat sheet easier to read.
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Write a good description so people know what's on your cheat sheet.
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Tell people about it when you're finished!
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{{fa-rocket}}
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{{fa-bold}}
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{{fa-check}}
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{{fa-leaf}}
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{{fa-square-o}}
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{{fa-cut}}
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Check out the full list of Font Awesome icons!
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Align text left (default)
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{{ac}}
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Align text centrally
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{{ar}}
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Align text right
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Borders
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{{border=1}}
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Add thin border all round
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{{bb=1}}
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Add thin border at bottom
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{{br=1}}
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Add thin border on right
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{{bl=1}}
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Add thin border on left
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{{bt=1}}
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Add thin border at top
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Border Widths
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{{bt=1}}
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Add thin border at top
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{{bt=2}}
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Add medium border at top
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{{bt=3}}
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Add thick border at top
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{{colspan=2}}
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Span Two Cells
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{{rowspan=3}}
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Span Three Rows
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Span Two Rows and Two Cells
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Italics (example)
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*text*
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Bold (example)
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**text**
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Superscript (example)
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^text^
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Subscript (example)
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~text~
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Strikethrough (
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~~text~~
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Inline Code (
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`code`
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Asterisk (*)
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\*
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Carat (^)
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\^
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Insert non-breaking space
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{{nl}}
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Line break
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{{noshy}}
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Do not insert shy hyphens
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{{nobreak}}
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Do not break long lines (only in list blocks)
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{{literal}}
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Do not format text
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{{width=50}}
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Set column width to 50% (any number from 1 to 100, must be in first row of block).
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{{popup="http://..."}}
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Popup URL provided
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{{popup="http://..."}}link text{{/popup}}
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{{link="http://..."}}
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Link to URL provided
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{{link="http://..."}}link text{{/link}}
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Add {{counter}} to a title or cell, it will display an incrementing number in your cheat sheet. Use {{resetcounter}} to set the counter back to 1.
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{{counter}}
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You can only publish a cheat sheet once.
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Before that, anybody can see it but it is marked as a "DRAFT".
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Newly published cheat sheets are prominent on Cheatography, so make the most of publishing and wait until you're happy with the cheat sheet!
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You can still edit a cheat sheet after you've published it.
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You can't unpublish a cheat sheet once it's been published.
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Cheatography supports all languages, as best we can manage.
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This means that the web versions of cheat sheets support all of the languages we've seen so far, including Chinese and Japanese.
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We're working on right-to-left language support.
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Not sure what rating to give? Here are some tips to help you rate fairly and consistently.
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Superb. A great guide, likely to be useful to anyone interested in the topic. Probably well presented, at least a page long, and uses tags.
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A good cheat sheet, with lots of useful information. Worth printing out a copy!
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A decent cheat sheet, but missing some useful information. A useful reference, but could do with some improvement.
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Room for improvement - probably not useful yet, but has potential with some more work.
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A poor cheat sheet, likely accidentally published too soon, doesn't have much useful content, contains abuse, or with other serious problems.
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If someone has rated one of your cheat sheets, please consider rating one of theirs.
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Avoid "revenge ratings". If you receive a low rating, bear in mind that not everyone will find your cheat sheets as useful as you do!
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Feel free to leave a shout for another user to ask for more information about why they left the rating they did.
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I cannot get my cheatsheets published - anyone else has this problem?
Very grateful for the very thoughtful and generous creators of cheatography - you understand the future and the need for collectivity. The Golden Age of the Individual is over.
The authoring features are fantastic. I wish there was more control over printing to PDF. For example, landscape PDF, paper sizes, and column breaks and page breaks. It would be nice if the PDF was more WYSIWYG with respect to the online viewing.
You can insert a page break. That is one of the options when inserting a section.
Hi Dave! Thanks for creating this site and the helpful guide. You've truly changed my learning game and I'm super appreciative. I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I just thought I'd check. I'm creating cheat sheets for coding and I like the two column set-up typically for all my blocks. I normally have a short explainer in the left column and then a few short lines of code in the right hand side. I will format the code using the backticks and use {{nl}}. The issue is if the line of code that's enclosed in backticks is too long. It then overlaps with the next block if I go to view the cheat sheet in full. Is there any way to avoid this? I currently get around it by just not enclosing the entire line in backticks and/or choosing to format specific words in code, or just using a code block in my sheet with comments to explain the line of code. Let me know if that doesn't make sense and thank you for your time! :)
It’s great that I’ve dicovered Cheatography!! Great tour! Time to explore!!
Wonderful stuff! Is there an API or markdown language for creating the cheatsheet? The gui is nice enough but it is still a gui.
Can you do subscript? For like chemical equations and things, I need to be able to subscript, not just superscript.
It would be really nice to have a more visual representation for the keyboard's keys (for the Shortcuts type of cheatsheet). ⇧ and → and this https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/f7_10305529?related_id=10305529 for Function keys (could no find in FontAwesome !) Not going too far so, ⎇ is not as clear as [Alt]. Same for [Ctrl] Having the key in a box would be visually much better
Hello, I didn't understand how to add borders. Inside my table/list where should I put it. I tried in the first column and in every column but nothing displays
What would become of us without well summarized practical information?
Hi bradrer. Sorry for the slow reply! You don't end a link tag - when you link some text the whole piece of text that follows it will be linked.
Hi bradrer. You can now link specific text, like this: {{link="http://..."}}link text{{/link}}
Sorry if this was already covered, but the use of colored text rather than plain black is a problem for those of us with less than perfect eyesight, I wish the B&W versions of these were better. I have a decent color laser and the prints of some of the sheets on this site are nearly unreadable under normal lighting. I've tried various settings in the print dialog, telling it to print B&W helps a little...
Edit to add: Text on pretty shaded backgrounds seems like a nice idea but reduces readability.
I have been trying to create a cheat sheet but every time I name the sheet I just get a page not found message with "Your cheat sheet was saved." message beneath it. But when I go to my account there is no cheat sheet.
So I'm not seeing where to make this cheatsheet. I hit create new cheat sheet but all i see are cheat sheets already made and no where to begin. this is frustrating.
thanks for the sitetour ! informative and down to the point! Alberto
Hello, I hope it will help me to improve my skills and knowledge.
I found this on Facebook and hope it will help me a lot, especially since I am an educator. I am excited to use this using my laptop :) Thank you for making these.
Thanks for your service. Your site is helpful to learn programming languages.
I am glad I found out about this very useful site. This is like computer enthusiast's dream come through. Thank you very much to all involved.
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ seems no longer to be working. But https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome still is.
I can't compile this \LaTeX ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/dave child_1367219106_136153986486ixb.jpg' not found: using draft setting.
Ainda bem que encontrei este site, parabéns aos desenvolvedores!
Hi! thanks for it but i have a question. Text in my cheat sheet is cutted in pdf. How to fit the cheatsheet to pdf size. Thanks
Hi Dave, Could you please let me how to add react code snippet while creating cheat sheet
Hi Dave, how can I edit a cheat sheet once I saved it as a draft? I don't find a menu option or similar to just go back to edit mode. Thanks!
Just checked in! Looking forward to a great discovery ... journey. :)
Hello, I'm creating a CheatSheet.. I created a column, I did make an error but I can't delete it. Can someone tell me if it's possible to delete (or modify) a saved column pls?
I have the same issue. I can not modify a saved block, I hit enter by mistake before finishing so it got finished. Also, I can't delete DRAFT cheatsheets that I made in error... This site seems like its been abandoned... there is no contact info, no way to get support, etc... pitty, since it is a great site!
I think I found it! -- its not docummented, but when you hover the mouse over the top right corner of a block, there magically appears a three button menu. If you click those three buttons, there are options to edit, delete, etc a block I am still looking for a way to delete draft cheatsheets made by mistake Hope this helps!
Impressed with collection. Very useful abstracts for studying.
I keep receiving: "Your cheat sheet was not saved. Please check the errors below and try again" when I try to create a sheet...
Thank you for this well Organized site i am happy i found you many thanks for all your hard work
Glad I came across this website. Looking forward to creating these fab cheat sheets. Thank you!
Hey all! Good to be here! Does CommonMark Or Markdown work in this Comments Section? Also, can we _import_ any **Cheatsheets** at all? Anyway, going to try d/l'ing a few. Hope to see you all out there.
How do you use the {{literal}} effect? I want part of the text in my box to be formatted literally, then the rest to be normal. I can't figure out how to get the literal formatting to stop in the middle of a sentence.
The {{literal}} flag affects the entire box, you can't stop it part-way through (yet).
Where are the keyboard shortcuts of cheatography.com?
I have a question about the links - they don't seem to work for me. when i place the {{popup=""}} tag anywhere in my block, all the text in it gets hyperlinked. How do I fix this?
Hi yayobelle. That's correct, that's how the links work. For your draft, you might be better off using the "one-column" layout for your blocks than using the "text" layout.
Are you really working on "left-to-right language support," or "right-to-left language support?" It looks like you support English, which is left-to-right, quite well. :)
Cheatography n. The art of mapping complex subjects into clear, instantly navigable reference guides.