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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 Spooky23 »

lurk2 wrote: post #11
divbzero wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Interesting. Did they add this feature recently? How do you set it up? Embedded files (photos, video, audio, PDFs, etc.) and bullet hierarchies were the two things that I remember being the most trouble; you can copy bullet hierarchies from iOS Notes and paste them into another app, but they aren’t detected when copying the note via Shortcuts. Embedded files had to be manually saved. I think you could Airdrop notes t…

It’s been there for several years.

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

xyst wrote: post #39
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.

Agree. iOS notes is only good for throwaway thoughts or ephemeral notes

You’re missing out. It’s a E2E encrypted solution that works really well.

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

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Post by paxys »

simonw wrote: post #43
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

Which iOS doesn't support.

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

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Post by JKCalhoun »

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.

That or I'm getting really old.

(Wait, I am.)

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

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Post by DevKoala »

kupopuffs wrote: post #30
DevKoala wrote: post #29

I would have killed for this back in 2022. I take all of my notes on ChatGPT now, and for more structured data I have built specialized tools/agents, and even small front ends like for my portfolio management track. It’s crazy how different my world used to be back then; note apps feel so primitive now.

I'm sorry, are you saying that you sent all your notes to ChatGPT as prompts? How do you recall or get your notes back?

For example I have a thread for engineer status updates. I get the call transcripts from an internal app my company developed and I push everything into ChatGPT. When I need to recall something, I just ask ChatGPT. It is much better than indexed search.

If I need to just write and don’t want feedback, i tell ChatGPT to not reply until I say so, and I will just write in the most lazy and disparaged way, a true brain dump, When I am ready, ChatGPT will sort out my thoughts.

If conversations get too large I summarize everything that’s important and migrate to another conversation.

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

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Post by Take8435 »

dunham wrote: post #32
lurk2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Did they add this feature recently? How do you set it up? Embedded files (photos, video, audio, PDFs, etc.) and bullet hierarchies were the two things that I remember being the most trouble; you can copy bullet hierarchies from iOS Notes and paste them into another app, but they aren’t detected when copying the note via Shortcuts. Embedded files had to be manually saved. I think you could Airdrop notes t…

I wrote python code to extract the notes years ago[1], but it's bit-rotted, so it no longer supports tables, raw stroke data, or the newer features like equations. Maybe I'll update it someday, but I'm not using notes at the moment and have too many other things going one. https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils

New term to add to the lexicon... bit-rot. I like it.

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

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Post by spike021 »

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’ve used my google account for notes for years. The earliest one looks like it was around 2014. Have you tried adding an email address from a platform that supports notes?

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

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Post by spike021 »

lurk2 wrote: post #11
divbzero wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Interesting. Did they add this feature recently? How do you set it up? Embedded files (photos, video, audio, PDFs, etc.) and bullet hierarchies were the two things that I remember being the most trouble; you can copy bullet hierarchies from iOS Notes and paste them into another app, but they aren’t detected when copying the note via Shortcuts. Embedded files had to be manually saved. I think you could Airdrop notes t…

I just checked and my google account’s earliest synced note is from 2011. it shows up in the Notes app as a separate section from the iCloud one.

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

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Post by leakycap »

paxys wrote: post #63
simonw wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Which iOS doesn't support.

Of course not, no developer has access to Notes on iOS for export except 

I applaud the effort simonw put into this, it works great on macOS... the platform AppleScript runs on.

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