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It's a lot better than BBCode tbh
You can underline in BBCode.
You can have colors in BBCode.
Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
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Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#142When Gruber mentions that he never uses Markdown outside of his blog, and hinting at the fact that it was not intended for text editors (and other apps), there's one important point I want to make. Yes, Markdown has disadvantages, and a few rough edges for uses as the format for editors et al, but there are two very big advantages and/or sideffects of it's widespread use: (1) it's cleartext and therefore very good as…
Markdown is like the new WordPerfect for some people, who want expressive written paths to format text. Like with WordPerfect, there are people who get great utility (attorneys in WP, developers with Markdown), but 80-95% of people don’t get anything out of it. It’s also one of those things where the constraints are an advantage. Markdown is great for internet facing text content, while many aspects of the mainstream…
Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software. I'm really surprised that MS didn't pick up on that and improve Word's line numbering: it's a vital feature for a number of professions.
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#143I'm still mad Apple Notes became unusable for me at some point due to iCloud fucking it up
it has thousands of thousands of unrelated files in the notes db.
The app just crashes mostly or is super-slow unusable
Apple used to be UX king, now its a joke.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Markdown is like the new WordPerfect for some people, who want expressive written paths to format text. Like with WordPerfect, there are people who get great utility (attorneys in WP, developers with Markdown), but 80-95% of people don’t get anything out of it. It’s also one of those things where the constraints are an advantage. Markdown is great for internet facing text content, while many aspects of the mainstream…
Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software. I'm really surprised that MS didn't pick up on that and improve Word's line numbering: it's a vital feature for a number of professions.
> Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software.
Lawyer here: I loved WordPerfect (for DOS) because of Reveal Codes and its easy keystroke macros, which let me write an Emacs keyboard emulator for it. (Yes, I eventually did one for Microsoft Word for Windows, which I use to this day.)
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#146I'm still mad Apple Notes became unusable for me at some point due to iCloud fucking it up it has thousands of thousands of unrelated files in the notes db. The app just crashes mostly or is super-slow unusable Apple used to be UX king, now its a joke.
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> Then everyone and their mother started doing static blogs It helps that Jekyll, one such static blog, was also pushed by GitHub back in the day.
Was Jekyll ever that popular though?
It certainly populated the "Mark Town to static HTML" blogging approach and created the room for its successors.
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#148Now do Journal exports too and I'll actually use the app.
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Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software. I'm really surprised that MS didn't pick up on that and improve Word's line numbering: it's a vital feature for a number of professions.
> Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software. Lawyer here: I loved WordPerfect (for DOS) because of Reveal Codes and its easy keystroke macros, which let me write an Emacs keyboard emulator for it. (Yes, I eventually did one for Microsoft Word for Windows, which I use to this day.)
That sounds really cool. Have you ever shared it?
Re: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
#150Markdown is a great storage format for notes. The precision of editing in Markdown makes it easy to be certain your indenting is correct, or do weird things that are actually common, like having a sub-list that switches from bullets to numbers or from numbers to bullets.