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Please add Markdown support
Please add support for Markdown editing/rendering. EverNote and Boostnote all support this, but OneNote still lacks this feature, while it remains so many developers' main notetaking tool. Take myself as an example, I enjoy its seamless integration with OneDrive and powerful search function, but find it difficult to properly take down coding related notes -- I was forced to format code snippets into monospaced font with shading to make them look like "code snippets".
To elaborate the user story about this idea:
- The user can create a new "regular page" or a "Markdown page". If the latter, then Markdown tags entered are rendered as you type (e.g. #title, >quote, *bold*, `code`...)
- The user might also enjoy a "cell editing" mode (similar to Jupyter Notebook). So if the cursor is placed in a cell, then it changes to raw text view. And once escaped from this cell, it gets rendered. And maybe enable some Jupyter/VS Code stype shortcut keys, too (Alt+Up/Down to move the cell, Alt+Shift+Up/Down to duplicate the cell, Ctrl+Shift+K to kill a line, etc)
This way notetaking will be more efficient/fun, and many developers would thank MS!
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+1 Upvoting this as well. I am also a software developer and being able to use Markdown would be significant productivity boost.
- OneNote seems to me to be one of the best MS tools. The lack of support for Markdown surprised me when I started using it years ago and I'm flabbergasted that it hasn't been implemented yet.
- I would like to add my Voice to this request.
can't believe there is no progress after these years.
- Strongly agree!!!!!! 👍
- Another vote for this feature. As a software developer, I only use markdown these days when making formatted documents. It's fast, reliable, and essentially universal at this point (within the software engineering industry anyway).
- I'm stuck using OneNote due to organizational policy, and markdown support would definitely be fantastic!
- Any plans for this? This is a much needed to feature to quickly type notes in markdown styles
- I used to enjoy using OneNote, but it can become disorganized. Utilizing Markdown documents would greatly simplify my development documentation process. One could even transform the OneNote product into something akin to Confluence for the corporate sphere. Currently, I am utilizing Joplin as a substitute for my personal notes.
