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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 jen20 »

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…

Part of the point of Markdown is that it's supposed to read like plain text - many of the elements is what was commonplace on usenet and in email.

If you're on macOS though, the best option for rendered Markdown is a quicklook plugin. There are a few around - I like [1] though.

[1]: https://github.com/smittytone/PreviewMarkdown

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

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Post by Diti »

TheDong wrote: post #103
irrational wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I also vote for HTML. It’s the only language I can write in which also includes all the metadata I want to include (schema.org and wikidata.org ontologies).

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

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Post by jen20 »

mdeeks wrote: post #44
candiddevmike wrote: post #33

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You hate reading unrendered markdown? I've looked at markdown so much that my brain renders it in my head.

URL are particularly egregious. In rich text it is just a word with a blue highlight or underline. In markdown my sentence with a [link]( https://myfavorite.site.com/article/blah/whatever/something.... ) looks like this.

Or, preferably, a [link][1].

[1]: https://whatever.com

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

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Post by RandallBrown »

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…

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

Every source control website I've used will render Markdown as HTML for you.

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

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Post by nextos »

bqmjjx0kac wrote: post #109
nextos wrote: post #95

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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.

=string= leads to the text being transcribed verbatim. A good hint is to recall that the equals sign kinda implies verbatim.

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

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Post by AlotOfReading »

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…

Typora, obsidian, marktext, vscode and emacs with the right extensions, etc. Most people don't care enough to search them out, but you have a good number of choices available.

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

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Post by nozzlegear »

paxys wrote: post #63
simonw wrote: post #43

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You can get at them with AppleScript. I wrote a tool for that a while ago: https://github.com/dogsheep/apple-notes-to-sqlite

Which iOS doesn't support.

The shortcuts app can access the text from your Apple Notes on iOS. You can set up a shortcut to export all of your notes to files, Dropbox, etc.

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

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Post by nozzlegear »

afavour wrote: post #56

Kind of amazed that this was the way I found out about Apple’s new OS versioning system

As another commenter said, they haven't officially announced it yet. That said, it's all I've heard about in the Apple world for the last couple of days¹, so it may just be that you don't follow Apple news closely.

¹ well that and the iOS redesign.

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

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Post by vunderba »

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…

For a second there I thought you were referring to a hardware solution. It would be pretty neat if I could drop straight markdown files into my Kindle and have them rendered in an aesthetically pleasing fashion.

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

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Post by jerkstate »

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.

nah, if you're talking about math, it's LaTeX
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