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Markdown and OneNote
2025 and still no markdown support in OneNote(touch supported version). This is Post ChatGPT era and all the LLMs generate text in markdown format. And I am pretty sure, a lot of people out there nowadays generate quick and concise notes through LLMs. But no, OneNote does not wanna render markdown.
However, keeping source formatting can format text somewhere close to LLMs output. But not perfectly. The code snippets and tables does not render and appear as a mess. In simple words, I cannot copy LLM output for "Give me code examples of Rust's thread::spawn() function" directly into OneNote because it will be just appear gibberish.
NOTE: There are two types of copying. 1) Select text and copy 2) Dedicated copy button in LLM output.
So when I say copy I mean *2 as it preserves the markdown syntax.
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Giving Onenote support to MD would also open a tremendous utility in the AI era, to get sample prompts, code snippets, document research, basically everything we used it for and all the new use cases with LLMs, now considering LLMs are a central piece of our workflow and MD is so easy to read and type.
Even integrating it to Github... just imagine what we could do with both..
I know this would imply overlap with VS Code but many of us live mainly in a text world not in a code world. So for text centric, Onenote with MD support makes all the sense.
Absolutely right. Instead of a bloated mouse push interface, one could just allow for the window object, a 'USE_MARKDOWN' checkbox, or Option to directly make the new page a MarkDown Page and then allow direct input.
Nevertheless - it makes sense as well to add as plugins KeTex/LaTex for formulas and Mermaid for diagrams.
Otherwise use https://joplinapp.org/- if you may.
That Joplin App seems fantastic. Both Apple and Microsoft should include it in their OS default text app!
So is standard note. It adds E2E encryption, but I didn't care to check why it exists for a notes app.
