I’ve trained our support staff on basic markdown syntax and while we do use it predominantly for spitting out documentation and guides and whatnot, its usefulness far exceeds the original intent. And that’s okay.
Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
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Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#72Kinda stoked for this. Been working on a notes app and apple notes is my current daily driver. Apple notes stores the notes in a proprietary and opaque format atm. I’ve been scheming ways to break the notes out without luck. Now I can just wait for this feature to come out.
Why keep using Notes if if it hurts you so much that they're not markdown-exportable? I haven't used Notes in decades other than to type out junk/numbers once every 4 months.
> Why keep using Notes if if it hurts you so much that they're not markdown-exportable?
Among other reasons, because the sync experience is second to none.
Some of the other reasons:
- Apple Pencil
- Shared notes with friends and family (vacation planning, lists, etc)
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#73I’d love to see Markdown added to Apple Messages. I’m constantly sending URLs to people, like https://somesite.com/login . The point of these links is usually that people read them and understand them. But the automatic behavior is to replace the text with OpenGraph links, big obnoxious bubbles of graphics, which distort or destroy the meaning that I’m trying to convey. Given the opportunity, I would send most links…
It would be awesome if Messages, Mail, and Notes rendered Markdown.
System-wide Markdown editing would also be awesome, perhaps as a feature of the keyboard.
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#74Sweet, just what I needed.
This will make it even easier to migrate all my Apple Notes™ to Obsidian.
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#75I wonder how to import markdown into Notes
There's a couple Apple Shortcuts actions to convert to/from Markdown and Rich Text for Notes, but I can't get them to work correctly.
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#76I'd love to see Markdown support in MS OneNote...
OneNote lets you add content in a canvas. It would be cool if there was an ASCII canvas note taking tool but I think it would have to be built on plain text from the ground up.
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also great for writing documentation in a plaintext IDE, which I think is what _really_ drove a lot of the adoption.
> which I think is what _really_ drove a lot of the adoption That GitHub used it as a "native" format everywhere from the beginning (as far as I remember), probably helped Markdown become at least as popular (or maybe even more) as GitHub itself. Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs, and since people already wrote their READMEs and issue comments with Markdown, I guess it was natural to want to w…
> Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs
It helps that Jekyll, one such static blog, was also pushed by GitHub back in the day.
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#78I’d love to see Markdown added to Apple Messages. I’m constantly sending URLs to people, like https://somesite.com/login . The point of these links is usually that people read them and understand them. But the automatic behavior is to replace the text with OpenGraph links, big obnoxious bubbles of graphics, which distort or destroy the meaning that I’m trying to convey. Given the opportunity, I would send most links…
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Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#79Kinda stoked for this. Been working on a notes app and apple notes is my current daily driver. Apple notes stores the notes in a proprietary and opaque format atm. I’ve been scheming ways to break the notes out without luck. Now I can just wait for this feature to come out.
Why keep using Notes if if it hurts you so much that they're not markdown-exportable? I haven't used Notes in decades other than to type out junk/numbers once every 4 months.
So first of all, I like Apple notes for its simplicity and ability to sync with iCloud. I don't really care if it's exportable using markdown, I only really care that it is exportable. Because I'd like to migrate to the notes app I am working on.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which I think is what _really_ drove a lot of the adoption That GitHub used it as a "native" format everywhere from the beginning (as far as I remember), probably helped Markdown become at least as popular (or maybe even more) as GitHub itself. Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs, and since people already wrote their READMEs and issue comments with Markdown, I guess it was natural to want to w…
Don't overlook Reddit as a major reason for many otherwise-non-technical people to learn Markdown.
And Discord as well. Every young person is on Discord, they're all learning some Markdown