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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 makeitdouble »

subjectsigma wrote: post #31
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.

From the article: “Apple is working on supporting the ability to export notes in Markdown from Apple Notes, which is something third-party apps have supported for years.” Am I misunderstanding or is that the feature you were asking for? If not then what does the article mean by export?

Not parent, but TBF Apple "working" on something means very little in most Apple rumors, and it doesn't seem to touch on iCloud independence.

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

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Post by mdeeks »

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…

Interesting, because I find that very intuitive. If my cursor is on or next to formatting, it'll inherit it.

I find formatting after the fact a lot easier too. Bold a line? cmd+shift-right and then cmd+b. Trying to add formatting after the fact with markdown isn't fun. Though many editors try to helpfully insert markdown for you with hotkeys, it often fails on multi-line things.

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

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Post by simonw »

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 get at them with AppleScript. I wrote a tool for that a while ago: https://github.com/dogsheep/apple-notes-to-sqlite

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

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Post by mdeeks »

candiddevmike wrote: post #33
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…

You hate reading unrendered markdown? I've looked at markdown so much that my brain renders it in my head.

URL are particularly egregious. In rich text it is just a word with a blue highlight or underline. In markdown my sentence with a [link](https://myfavorite.site.com/article/blah/whatever/something....) looks like this.

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

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Post by plufz »

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.

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

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Post by plufz »

krackers wrote: post #40
ale42 wrote: post #3

I first thought it was some kind of extrapolation like... at the rate features are currently being added, Markdown will land in ~2032 with iOS 26... just noticed about the new version numbering, I missed that news!

They must be doing version numbers based on marketing. From OS X, to macOS 11...15, and now macOS 26.

I think the version number from year is quite good. I keep forgetting which version is new and old with the current system. Now it will be easy to remember if you are lagging behind one year, or two or whatever.

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

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Post by idk-92 »

krackers wrote: post #40
ale42 wrote: post #3

I first thought it was some kind of extrapolation like... at the rate features are currently being added, Markdown will land in ~2032 with iOS 26... just noticed about the new version numbering, I missed that news!

They must be doing version numbers based on marketing. From OS X, to macOS 11...15, and now macOS 26.

what do you mean by marketing? it's based on the year the version is pushed now. Which makes alot more sense at the end of the day and helps to know which version came when
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