Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts

Marcus Mendes, in a piece at 9to5Mac with multiple spoilers for next week’s keynote: 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. Granted, this is a niche feature, but as a fierce participant in the niche, I can confirm: this is huge. When this story first started spreading this morning, it was getting repeated as Notes “gaining Markdown support”, which implied something like Bear or Obsidian, where you can type Markdown syntax characters while editing, and perhaps optionally see the Markdown syntax in your notes. “Markdown notes app” is really like a class of notes apps unto itself. 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- ... Read full article.