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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 AdamN »

piperswe wrote: post #131
zimpenfish wrote: post #123

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> 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?

It will continue to be yearly but now all the OS numbers will be the same (the most important part) and require little inside knowledge to know if it's new or old (only a geek would know that iOS 15 was released in 2024 for instance, the new method will be more like car model years).

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

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Post by Terretta »

basisword wrote: post #229
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.’

Nobody knows yet, it's just a rumour. But year-based versioning makes sense as these products continue to develop and the version numbers get higher. Even as an iOS developer, I've lost track of the phone versions at this point. Year-based versioning would be so much easier. Saying that I hope it's "iOS '26" and not "iOS 26".

We'd made this change before, then dropped it when we hit the "year zero" problem.

We were doing years without abbreviation before the numbers went from 80s and 90s to 00s.

Everyone knew what "Product 95" was, or "Product 97".

But then "Product 0" or "Product 2" didn't work, so vendors switched to major versions instead of years.

A quarter century later, we're reviving the year as version thing.

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

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Post by basisword »

Terretta wrote: post #242
basisword wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody knows yet, it's just a rumour. But year-based versioning makes sense as these products continue to develop and the version numbers get higher. Even as an iOS developer, I've lost track of the phone versions at this point. Year-based versioning would be so much easier. Saying that I hope it's "iOS '26" and not "iOS 26".

We'd made this change before, then dropped it when we hit the "year zero" problem. We were doing years without abbreviation before the numbers went from 80s and 90s to 00s. Everyone knew what "Product 95" was, or "Product 97". But then "Product 0" or "Product 2" didn't work, so vendors switched to major versions instead of years. A quarter century later, we're reviving the year as version thing.

We had Windows 2000 :) I look forward to Window 95 (v2) in 70 years. Number versioning is fine until you are releasing a new OS every year. Same with the phones. It's just too hard to keep track of at a certain point for consumers. yyyy.mm.dd style versioning is much better when you're releasing at the rate companies do these days imo.

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

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

RandallBrown wrote: post #114
DidYaWipe wrote: post #101

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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…

> You find readme documents in Markdown in every open-source repo, but why? What are you supposed to read them with? Every source control website I've used will render Markdown as HTML for you.

Github mercifully supports README.rst.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pvo50555 wrote: post #145

I am consistently shocked at how bad Apple Notes is. I like the features it has and I like the iCloud sync between devices... I use it daily. But it's so damn buggy. It's a notes app! Why do new lines on a moderately-long note cause half the text to disappear until I hit the carriage return a few times? I also wish it simply converted copied text to plaintext by default rather than trying to preserve formatting.

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

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Post by devinprater »

This will be pretty nice for accessibility too. Hopefully this leads to Markdown everywhere in the OS, and that follower-OS' add it too. For accessibility, it's great because I can have my screen reader announce punctuation, so it reads star star this star star, instead of no indication of italics at all. Granted, that could always be made better, using speech parameters like pitch and speed to indicate formatting, but that's not found a good home outside of Emacspeak.

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

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Post by _thisdot »

plufz wrote: post #47
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.

I use Obsidian these days, I found the switch from Apple Notes pain free. I still think Apple Notes is a great app for almost everyone. Not perfect but really good.

I went this way as well. I used to try and make all my notes in Notion. But found the lack of offline support and the mobile app very limiting. Then I tried Apple Notes with a framework called "Forever Notes". Obsidian does everything Forever Notes does but better.

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

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Post by _thisdot »

brigandish wrote: post #124
Spooky23 wrote: post #62

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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.

It most definitely does. If you're using your gmail account as your AppleID. You can find all your notes unencrypted under a Gmail label called Notes

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

_thisdot wrote: post #249
brigandish wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It most definitely does. If you're using your gmail account as your AppleID. You can find all your notes unencrypted under a Gmail label called Notes

You didn’t choose to E2E encrypt them. You can find your unencrypted notes there.

https://support.apple.com/en-la/102537#:~:text=Open%20Notes%...

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