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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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MoaryChenMicrosoft
I would like to add my Voice to this request.
yes, please!
Please add this feature. Need the md so bad
They created Loop with markdown features, just add it to onenote!!
Loop doesn't help at all unfortunately. Firstly, Loop adds more complexity, Markdown is ment to reduce it. Secondly, Loop isn't free as OneNote is.
Loop has undoubtedly its perks and pluses, but just for the sake of supporting Markdown it isn't worth it imho.Now it seems that Micro$oft wants to push Loop and neglects OneNote. Proprietary PKMS doesn't cut it anymore for me personally. I'm using simple Markdown text files for now. They can be opened and rendered with a lot of FOSS, can be versioned with git and are compatible with GitHub, GitLab and Gitea.
I loved OneNote once but left it for good and never looked back. But I get notified via email on this thread and reply from time to time.
I would really much rather use Git and native Markdown files too, but the big problem I have is all the content I already have in OneNote :/
I have attempted to find a utility that would allow me to export my notebooks, but I keep running into PowerShell errors when trying it.
Do you happen to know of a solution to export large amounts of pages from OneNote? (Even to .txt or something would be fine with me, and I can start to add the Markdown over time as I go through it.)
I don't see an option to do this on Mac... Also it looks like A LOT of overhead to have to add components anywhere you want markdown to render.
Microsoft should really just take 1 developer or something have them make Markdown native to OneNote
Considering that Copilot generates Markdown it's really annoying that OneNote can't parse it and I have to manually reformat it or use another tool.
For me the solution, now is upnote lifetime , icedrive lifetime, google calendar, task, docs, photos, local win backup. they don't give a f... we don't give a f...
It is 2024 and I'm also still waiting!
- Bump! Please add this feature!
please support markdown for onenot!
thanks!
+1 Upvoting this as well. I am also a software developer and being able to use Markdown would be significant productivity boost.
