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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 piperswe »

zimpenfish wrote: post #123
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.

Haven't they been on a yearly update cycle since the start?

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

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Post by DocTomoe »

johanyc wrote: post #94
nixpulvis wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably Apple Flavored.

Could that end up being the standard flavor? I’m a bit annoyed by the differences between flavors

That's the beauty of standards ... there are so many of them.

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

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Post by eviks »

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.

Unfortunately Joplin is too slow for a niche of short fast notes, but even then better to get another app without a lock in

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

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Post by OptionOfT »

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.

But for some reason the action center quick note create button doesn't work when your default notes account is not iCloud.

Which PM comes up with this? And what does a developer thing when they implement this?

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

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Post by zombot »

90s_dev wrote: post #99
tlhunter wrote: post #20

Microsoft notepad is also getting markdown support. It's a very interesting coincidence! Overall, I'm surprised to see markdown become mainstream so quickly. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/30/text-fo...

I thought this was huge news so I posted it here and it got no eyes.

If you post something even slightly outside the current hype, it's very much hit-and-miss whether it gets eyes. It also depends on day of week and time of day when it was posted. Repeated reposts used to take care of that but they've been made impossible, probably because of spam and abuse.

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

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Post by zombot »

nozzlegear wrote: post #118
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.

There is an iOS redesign?

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

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Post by eviks »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #37
mdeeks wrote: post #28

I really hope Apple Notes makes this something that's opt-in and I don't have to see. Thankfully it sounds like it is an export only feature. I think there is a bifurcation of people who like markdown and people who like rich text. And both groups have strong opinions. Apple Notes was my goto rich text editor. Fingers crossed that they aren't making this worse for us. Related: I switched away from Bear notes because…

Bear’s implementation is great. One thing I hate about rich text is that it's basically impossible to not inherit the formatting of adjacent text if you move your cursor around, nor is it possible to see the current formatting state. If your cursor is between whitespace and an italic word, will inserted text be normal or italic? Markdown’s formatting characters solve this by creating a boundary that the cursor can be…

This is a solved problem, but not implemented almost nowhere. Your text cursor can simply show whether text is going to be italic with an indicator. And moving cursor an extra step away from the italicized word will reset the formatting to that of the space char. But also panels in many apps show current formatting in their formatting button state

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

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Post by zombot »

solardev wrote: post #72
afavour wrote: post #56

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

You mean you don't bump your semver by 8 major versions when you add markdown exports?

Not semver any more, it's year numbers now.

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

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Post by eviks »

marbletiles wrote: post #2

> Instead of tapping buttons to bold text or create headers, users could type *bold* or # Header directly into their notes. Which will be more keystrokes, not fewer – it's faster to get to the formatting buttons than it is the punctuation keyboard on iOS, and even on Mac the shortcut commands are often faster too. Notes was a fanastic example of a rich-text environment, but if Markdown input helps the die-hards that…

Current

   - Tap Aa
 - Tap Italic
 - Tap close
 - Type
 - Tap Aa
 - Tap Italic (to reset)
 - Tap close
Future

    - Hold a key to insert asterisk
    - Type
    - Hold a key to insert asterisk
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