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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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DevKoala wrote: post #65
kupopuffs wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, are you saying that you sent all your notes to ChatGPT as prompts? How do you recall or get your notes back?

For example I have a thread for engineer status updates. I get the call transcripts from an internal app my company developed and I push everything into ChatGPT. When I need to recall something, I just ask ChatGPT. It is much better than indexed search. If I need to just write and don’t want feedback, i tell ChatGPT to not reply until I say so, and I will just write in the most lazy and disparaged way, a true brain d…

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

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Post by wltr »

Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19?

I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

wltr wrote: post #122

Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19? I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’

> Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19?

I only found out yesterday if that helps. Makes some kind of sense now they're on a regular yearly update cycle.

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

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Post by brigandish »

Spooky23 wrote: post #62
xyst wrote: post #39

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Agree. iOS notes is only good for throwaway thoughts or ephemeral notes

You’re missing out. It’s a E2E encrypted solution that works really well.

Does it rely on iCloud for that? And is the E2E only enabled for Notes if it's enabled in iCloud?

If so then the UK does not have E2E Notes.

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

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.

> There is no way to export these notes with their metadata and media intact without using iCloud.

You can have an Apple Notes folder backed by IMAP which lets you get at the notes as `multipart/related; type="text/html"` emails (including media). I use it on my servers for family-controlled email allow/deny lists.

(Definitely more faff to deal with than something like Obsidian or Joplin's Markdown notes though.)

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

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Post by meehai »

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…

vscode with the markdown plugin works really good.

text on the left, render on the right pane

example: https://imgur.com/9rjoMa2.png

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

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.

> This supports a reduced feature set (no embedded images, tables, or audio)

Just tested and embedded images do seem to be supported?

("insert photo" -> add photo -> photo is stored as a MIME part on the note)

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

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Post by epistasis »

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.

This is also the primary hangup that's kept me from adopting org-mode for notes, and I instead keep everything in MarkDown, and miss out on all the org-mode organization effects. The differences in link syntax are hard too, but I've got 5-10 years of DokuWiki in my history that make the link syntax more palatable. However, I still prefer MarkDown syntax for links too...

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

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Post by wodenokoto »

wltr wrote: post #122

Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19? I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’

I also thought the article would be a joke about an obvious feature never arriving.
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