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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.

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I should probably go back to Notational Velocity, but am spoiled by iCloud. It’s effectively the perfect scratch pad notes app. Markdown for all content, search is also document creation, great key bindings, sorting by all relevant fields, and fast.

I was just thinking about Notational Velocity last week. I went and looked and it seems the latest release is from 2011.

It mentions it’s a universal binary, but considering it mentions support for OS X 10.4 - 10.7, I have a feeling it is PPC/Intel universal, not Intel/ARM.

I see the GitHub has some more recent updates, but still 5 years old.

Apple Shortcuts already has a Rich Text to Markdown converter out of the box. It was already a quick jump to Markdown using only built-in Apple tools, but maybe this will be a cleaner export.

I’ve been converting from Apple Notes to Obsidian and it’s been pretty painful. Everything is just slightly off, in inconsistent ways, where I need to clean up every note manually. I’m deep enough into it that adding the feature now won’t do me much good, but might be helpful if I want to use notes for quick capture and then maybe export to Obsidian if I want to save it.

> This is only to export in markdown, not directly write in markdown.

Oof, I got really excited about this for half a day or so...

Maybe worth changing the headline?

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