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Title: Apple Notes Expected To Gain Markdown Support

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/204...

According to 9to5Mac, "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." Apple enthusiast and co-creator of the Markdown markup
language, John Gruber, is not a fan. From a blog post: Some people find this
surprising, but I personally don't want to use a Markdown notes app. I
created Markdown two decades ago and have used it ever since for one thing
and one thing only: writing for the web at Daring Fireball. My original
description of what it is still stands: "Markdown is a text-to-HTML
conversion tool for web writers." Perhaps an even better description of
Markdown is Matthew Butterick's, from the documentation for Pollen: "Markdown
is a simplified notation system for HTML." The other great use case for
Markdown is in a context where you either need or just want to be saving to a
plain text file or database field. That's not what Apple Notes is or should
be. I can see why many technically-minded people want to use Markdown
"everywhere." It's quite gratifying that Markdown has not only become so
popular, but after 21 years, seemingly continues to grow in popularity, to
the point now where there clearly are a lot of people who seemingly enjoy
writing in Markdown more than even I do. But I think it would be a huge
mistake for Apple to make Apple Notes a "Markdown editor," even as an option.
It's trivial to create malformed Markdown syntax; it shouldn't be possible to
have a malformed note in Apple Notes. I craft posts for Daring Fireball; I
dash off notes in Apple Notes. [...] But Markdown export from Notes? That
sounds awesome. Frankly, perhaps the biggest problem with Apple Notes is that
its export functionality is rather crude -- PDF and, of all formats, Pages.
Exporting and/or copying the selected text as Markdown would be pretty cool.
Very curious to see how they handle images though, if this rumor is true.

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