I’m surprised to see a DF article here. I thought he was black listed
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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
#12I’m surprised to see a DF article here. I thought he was black listed
Well, there's this: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/the_website_hacker_news_i...
Not sure if it's a blacklist as much as people insta-flagging, as happens with a many of the political-adjacent posts.
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#13John Gruber, creator of markdown, wrong about markdown again. ( https://airsource.co.uk/blog/2014/09/04/markdown-has-been-st... )
I mean it’s lot like he’s touting some fringe thing just because he made it. It must be so weird to see markdown become the lingua franca of everything from online forums to LLMs.
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#14Markdown is the native formatting of large language models. As such, support for it will be everywhere in the coming years.
I suspect LLMs, not users, have been the requesting this feature at Apple.
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#15John Gruber, creator of markdown, wrong about markdown again. ( https://airsource.co.uk/blog/2014/09/04/markdown-has-been-st... )
As its author, he’s right though. There really shouldn’t be a standard considered Standard Markdown. It muddies the fact that it wasn’t published by its author. Maybe Common Markdown would have been a better name between a few large orgs.
By this logic, since Ritchie died in 2011, you cannot have a "Standard C" because it's not from the author
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#16It makes sense that Markdown is a good tool for a specific purpose, and generalized note taking isn't it. As an aside, I have a dream that Apple Notes could be piped into a website as a form of blogging. As it is, I haven't found a way to do it...
I think you want Alto / Montaigne (spelling?). They’re both made by the same person IIRC.
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#17John Gruber, creator of markdown, wrong about markdown again. ( https://airsource.co.uk/blog/2014/09/04/markdown-has-been-st... )
As its author, he’s right though. There really shouldn’t be a standard considered Standard Markdown. It muddies the fact that it wasn’t published by its author. Maybe Common Markdown would have been a better name between a few large orgs.
Well, there's this: https://commonmark.org
But everyone seems to have their own slightly different flavor, either pre- or post- that "standardization".
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#18It makes sense that Markdown is a good tool for a specific purpose, and generalized note taking isn't it. As an aside, I have a dream that Apple Notes could be piped into a website as a form of blogging. As it is, I haven't found a way to do it...
I like my Markdown notes editor, but I agree it's not the right choice for Apple notes because exposing the underlying machinery in everyday use is not Apple's style.
It’s also not handy to reach the mark-up characters from a touch keyboard. And if you are adding backticks and asterisks to a markup bar, you might as well just add bold and italics to the markup bar.
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#19John Gruber, creator of markdown, wrong about markdown again. ( https://airsource.co.uk/blog/2014/09/04/markdown-has-been-st... )
As its author, he’s right though. There really shouldn’t be a standard considered Standard Markdown. It muddies the fact that it wasn’t published by its author. Maybe Common Markdown would have been a better name between a few large orgs.
That’s what they did in the end: https://commonmark.org/
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#20I wonder how to import markdown into Notes