# Create Markdown shortcut

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/create-markdown-shortcut/87289>\
**Category:** DEVONthink To Go\
**Tags:** automation\
**Created:** [July 9, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/create-markdown-shortcut/87289 "2026-07-09T03:24:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![TonyLim](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@TonyLim](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/TonyLim)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/create-markdown-shortcut/87289/1 "2026-07-09T03:24:39Z")

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I have a shortcut as below (left image). When the Markdown document was opened for editing, there is always the word “(Markdown)” on the first line.

Do you guys have this problem? How can I get rid of that and simply have a blank document for editing?

 ![D17F835F-733F-4BBC-9B23-8E72C3DC0DE1_4_5005_c](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/3X/2/3/23e0ac721cb52125e599552dede710d5d60ccc84.jpeg) ![FED20ABC-B942-4D81-AF18-DF4C820B4234_4_5005_c](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/3X/d/4/d428516d6e56e337953bdbf449e426127c83d76b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/create-markdown-shortcut/87289/2 "2026-07-10T14:55:44Z")

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It’s not a bug. It was enabled to avoid being displayed as only containing metadata or being detected as zero bytes. Why don’t you just put your _Formatted Date_ variable in the content?

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**Author:** ![TonyLim](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@TonyLim](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/TonyLim)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/create-markdown-shortcut/87289/3 "2026-07-12T01:39:51Z")

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ok.