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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

#81
I made a feature request for this very thing within the latest version cycle. I imagine others have as well. Maybe they listened, maybe they didn’t, but here’s hoping!

Edit: I fell for the headline. This is only to export in markdown, not directly write in markdown. So close, yet so far.

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

#82

> It sounds like the feature will only add support for exporting text with markdown formatting and not writing in markdown directly That's a shame. I was hoping for at least the option to edit in markdown (and praying for LaTeX support too)

>and praying for LaTeX support too This gave me the belly laugh I needed, thanks!

a guy can (c/h)ope

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

#83

I thought the title was an Onion-esque joke at first, not realising they've changed the naming scheme

I thought it was just a typo, but I assume they've switched to years? Please tell me this won't end up like the Xbox naming scheme.

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

#84
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 love Apple Notes for being easy and “just works” within the Apple Ecosystem. Easy to share with family, notes updated across devices, etc.

Markdown support is a nice addition and hope this makes it easy to transfer notes with other app faster and an intact formatting across the journey.

However, I use it as a starting entry point for my notes, which are mostly temporary, rough, and ephemeral. These notes are the ones I won’t mind losing and can walk out. Anything important or critical that is added here is eventually moved to a plain-text note (Markdown) elsewhere.

https://brajeshwar.com/2025/notes/

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

#85

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.

TIL there is a markup language war. Who are the combatants?

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

#86

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.

But which dialect of Markdown?

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

#87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 d…

This is the most alien (to me) workflow that I have ever read in HN. And that includes emacs.

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

#88

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.

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

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

#89

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.

But which dialect of Markdown?

Probably Apple Flavored.

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

#90
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes; Ubuntu did this from the beginning; (6.06 is the first I've used, and I still remember _when_ I used it), Python's introducing CalVer too (aptly numbered PEP https://peps.python.org/pep-2026/)
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