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Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by DidYaWipe »

whatever1 wrote: post #78

Markdown is the defacto language of the llms. Between this and the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown I think that markdown officially has won the markup language war.

Except of course that almost nobody makes a READER for Markdown. WTF? It's mystifying.

You find readme documents in Markdown in every open-source repo, but why? What are you supposed to read them with?

After much searching I finally ended up with Marked, on the Mac. A paid app. But that's about it for options. And no, I'm not talking about text editors that offer a "preview" pane that you can optionally invoke. I'm talking about a simple reader for Markdown that renders it, so you're not reading a shitty text file with a bunch of formatting codes in it. Why bother putting them in, if nothing parses and acts on them?

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by TheDong »

irrational wrote: post #85
whatever1 wrote: post #78

Markdown is the defacto language of the llms. Between this and the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown I think that markdown officially has won the markup language war.

TIL there is a markup language war. Who are the combatants?

html, markdown, reStructuredText, wikitext, AsciiDoc, emacs org mode, LaTeX, and a bunch of others.

In some contexts, JSX and markdown are also competing.

I think HTML is the true winner.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by lxgr »

divbzero wrote: post #8
lurk2 wrote: post #4

I would not recommend investing in the iOS Notes ecosystem. There is no way to export these notes with their metadata and media intact without using iCloud. If you need a note-taking app, go with Joplin instead; it supports Markdown, has both iOS and desktop clients, and supports self-hosted syncing.

You can connect iOS Notes with any IMAP server. This supports a reduced feature set (no embedded images, tables, or audio) but does allow for self-hosting.

And no formatting whatsoever.

I really wish Apple would revisit third-party server support with something more modern, such as a Markdown + file hosting backend (over WebDAV or whatever they currently consider the cool way of file sharing), but I'm not holding my breath.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

#105

Post by TheDong »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #101
whatever1 wrote: post #78

Markdown is the defacto language of the llms. Between this and the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown I think that markdown officially has won the markup language war.

Except of course that almost nobody makes a READER for Markdown. WTF? It's mystifying. You find readme documents in Markdown in every open-source repo, but why? What are you supposed to read them with? After much searching I finally ended up with Marked, on the Mac. A paid app. But that's about it for options. And no, I'm not talking about text editors that offer a "preview" pane that you can optionally invoke. I'm t…

Markdown renders to html.

Browsers read html. You're supposed to read markdown with a browser by rendering it to html and reading the html.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by [deleted] »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #101
whatever1 wrote: post #78

Markdown is the defacto language of the llms. Between this and the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown I think that markdown officially has won the markup language war.

Except of course that almost nobody makes a READER for Markdown. WTF? It's mystifying. You find readme documents in Markdown in every open-source repo, but why? What are you supposed to read them with? After much searching I finally ended up with Marked, on the Mac. A paid app. But that's about it for options. And no, I'm not talking about text editors that offer a "preview" pane that you can optionally invoke. I'm t…

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Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by debuggerson »

This might be the stepping stone toward AI integration, as I believe every phone will soon come with an AI agent that helps execute multiple tasks and manage files internally. Just like Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior VP of services mentioned, the future of phones will look very different from what we know now. I expect it has more function like converting to other formats.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by bqmjjx0kac »

nextos wrote: post #95
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is funny because it’s really an incomplete spec that originated from a blog post. But it won anyway because both machines and humans can use it with relative ease, which is apparently quite a difficult thing to achieve in a markup language

It might be my Emacs bias, but I find Org much nicer as a format. For instance, timestamps and todo items make it trivial to use Org as a planner. This would be great to have in applications such as Apple Notes.

I love org-mode, but if I were king, it would accept freakin' back-quotes for monospaced text. Instead, it takes ~tilde~ or =equals=, and I will never remember the difference no matter how many times I look it up.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

#110

Post by bqmjjx0kac »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #102
trentnix wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

30% of what you type disappears.

That afflicts anything you "type" on Jony Ive's "butterfly" shitboard. Oh wait, maybe it's 30% of it is repeated...

I think over the course of 3+ years, that keyboard probably wasted at least 30 minutes of my life.
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