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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
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Don't overlook Reddit as a major reason for many otherwise-non-technical people to learn Markdown.
It is funny to occasionally see it explained like 'on Reddit you can use ...' and think '..dude, markdown, just tell them you can use markdown' (and then realise oh right yeah ok, your way is probably clearer to them and you probably don't know it as 'markdown' either).
I'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.
It's such a more convenient way of "styling while you type" and has become the de facto way to do that... in Slack, Reddit comments, GitHub, Jira, Confluence etc... even MS Teams, they all allow Markdown "styling while you type"
I don’t want Notes to become a Markdown editor. I think that would be confusing for the majority of users. What I would like is for it to understand Markdown syntax and just convert it to the right thing. If I type “# My Note”, it should convert that to note title format. If I type “## Heading” it should convert it to a heading format, and so on. Most apps do this already, to some extent. If you start a line with a -…
> I’m just asking for it to handle a few more things.
How is what you're asking for not making Notes into a Markdown editor? Those are all features that come from Markdown, and the reason "most apps" already handle those, is because they're aiming to support Markdown to at least some extent.
Not helped by Gruber’s refusal to bless a specific well-specified Markdown flavor, leaving us to deal with all the undefined behavior of his original implementation.
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And Discord as well. Every young person is on Discord, they're all learning some Markdown
Teams and Slack as well, though they use an odd variant markdown (where single asterisk indicates bold instead of italics).
I wrote a piece a few years ago that still reflects a lot of my thoughts on the tension between Markdown as a format and the actual experience of writing and publishing on the web: [“Thoughts on Markdown” – Smashing Magazine]( https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/thoughts-on-markdow... ). What Apple seems to be doing with Notes—embracing Markdown syntax but not treating it as a source format—feels like a pragmati…
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I think I’ve missed the point.