It is reported that the iPhone's 'Notes' app will support Markdown, but the inventor of Markdown comments that 'Markdown is not necessary for notes'
Markdown is a markup language that allows you to write sentences while specifying text decoration such as headings and bold using simple symbols. It has been reported that Apple's 'Notes' will support Markdown, but Markdown inventor
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Markdown is a markup language that is based on a set of rules, such as 'putting a '#' at the beginning of a line makes it a heading' and 'enclosing a phrase with '**' makes it bold.' It was originally developed as a notation to simplify the creation of web pages in HTML. Markdown has the advantages of 'simple rules that are easy to remember' and 'the same notation can be used to decorate text regardless of the OS or app,' so it has come to be widely used in fields other than HTML creation, and recently it was announced that Windows Notepad will support Markdown, which has become a hot topic.
Below is an example of a sentence written using Markdown in the project management tool YouTrack . In an app that does not support Markdown, when you want to perform operations such as 'make heading', 'bold', or 'strikethrough', you need to search for the relevant function from the menu and click it, or select the string and press a shortcut key, but with Markdown, you can set the format just by typing symbols on the keyboard.
Regarding the Markdown format, 9to5Mac, a foreign media outlet that handles Apple-related information, reported on June 3, 2025 that ' iOS 26 will include a Markdown output function in Notes.'
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In response to this report, Markdown inventor John Gruber published a blog post in which he stated his opinion, saying, 'There's been a lot of talk about Notes becoming a Markdown editor like Bear or Obsidian , but personally I don't want to use Markdown in Notes. I think it would be a huge mistake for Apple to make Notes a Markdown editor, even as an optional feature.'
Gruber does not dislike Apple's Notes, but rather praises it as 'an ideal rich text editor with a very easy-to-use interface.' He also understands the demand to 'use Markdown everywhere.' However, Gruber himself sees Markdown as a 'simplified notation for HTML,' and even as of 2025, more than 20 years after its invention, he says he does not use it for anything other than writing web articles.
'Notes has a great interface and isn't nerdy at all,' Gruber said. 'You don't have to switch between edit and preview modes. It's the Mac way. No ugly, nerdy '#' prefix.'
In response to Gruber's opinion, Markdown enthusiasts on the social news site Hacker News commented, 'It's true that there are drawbacks to using Markdown as an editor format, but Markdown has some major advantages, such as 'because it's clear text, there's no vendor lock-in' and 'because you're not tied to a proprietary format, you can take your data with you at any time.''
There was also a post stating , 'Markdown makes heavy use of symbols such as '#' and '-', but these symbols are difficult to type on the iOS keyboard, making it more inconvenient than using a PC keyboard.'
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