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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 DidYaWipe »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #116
DidYaWipe wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks, but most of those are examples of exactly what I'm talking about: an editor with a Markdown "preview" function tacked on. I just want to double-click on the .md file and read it in a rendered form. Otherwise... what's the point?

And because of the lack of such readers, everyone just reads the plain text with a bunch of garbage in it. It's just gallingly dumb.

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

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

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?

It's speculation at the moment (macrumors.com), it hasn't been officially announced yet.

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

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Post by DidYaWipe »

bqmjjx0kac wrote: post #110
DidYaWipe wrote: post #102

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That afflicts anything you "type" on Jony Ive's "butterfly" shitboard. Oh wait, maybe it's 30% of it is repeated...

I think over the course of 3+ years, that keyboard probably wasted at least 30 minutes of my life.

Wow, you got off easy.

That keyboard was such a POS that a Wall Street Journal writer did a feature story on it without correcting any of the mistakes the keyboard introduced. It was essentially illegible. Then the Web site had buttons that you could push to remove each kind of error and make it legible: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #147
TheDong wrote: post #105

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Markdown renders to html. Browsers read html. You're supposed to read markdown with a browser by rendering it to html and reading the html.

What a dumb pain in the ass. Do you seriously check out a repo, run the read-me file through a Markdown-to-HTML converter, and then launch a browser to read the result?

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

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Post by epistasis »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #148
jen20 wrote: post #111

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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

Thanks! But then why not just use plain text? Because of the lack of widely-available, lightweight Markdown readers, everyone just ends up reading the text with a bunch of codes in it. It's just... dumb.

Markdown is plain text, so using Markdown is using plain text.

What is your alternative to Markdown here?

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

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Post by dismalaf »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #151
AlotOfReading wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks, but most of those are examples of exactly what I'm talking about: an editor with a Markdown "preview" function tacked on. I just want to double-click on the .md file and read it in a rendered form. Otherwise... what's the point? And because of the lack of such readers, everyone just reads the plain text with a bunch of garbage in it. It's just gallingly dumb.

Editors are for, gasp, writing or editing source code like Markdown. Some people write source code and aren't just users...

That's what documentation generators are for, to render all the docs and search them if you're just a user.

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

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Post by Kwpolska »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #147
TheDong wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Markdown renders to html. Browsers read html. You're supposed to read markdown with a browser by rendering it to html and reading the html.

What a dumb pain in the ass. Do you seriously check out a repo, run the read-me file through a Markdown-to-HTML converter, and then launch a browser to read the result?

GitHub renders Markdown if you click on a file in the Web repo view.

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

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Post by rcarmo »

nextos wrote: post #95
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #88

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Which is funny because it’s really an incomplete spec that originated from a blog post. But it won anyway because both machines and humans can use it with relative ease, which is apparently quite a difficult thing to achieve in a markup language

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.

Forget it, we’ve lost. I was also partial to Textile for tables, and that’s gone nowhere too.

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

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Post by rcarmo »

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…

There are at least three QuickLook previewers that I know of: https://taoofmac.com/space/markup/markdown
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