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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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- For anyone that wants Microsoft to add Markdown support to OneNote, head over to the feedback portal and upvote it:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/ea10b18b-92f8-ec11-a81b-6045bd7d68ae- Done 👍
- Registered just to +1 this as well
- I agree on the need for this feature.
Integration of OneNote with Teams makes OneNote an appealing ad-doc documentation tool for orgs that use Teams. However, the stubborn "differentness" of OneNote from other tools will inhibit adoption. DevOps teams that work extensively with tools like VS Code and GitHub (*ahem* Microsoft Tools) will prefer to edit text using Markdown syntax.
I have been using OneNote for a LONG time, and understand why it is the way it is. I am not advocating for a fundamental re-write. How about you just let us insert a Markdown "onionskin" and leave everything else as-is? - +1! Please add Markdown support to OneNote!
+1 here as well, it would bridge a gap from between the Office-oriented workers and Developers + DevOps people who are much more used to markup languages.
Hey OneNote team!
How’s it going? I wanted to ask you guys to add native markdown support to OneNote. Markdown is super popular among developers and communication professionals for quickly and easily formatting text. If OneNote had native markdown support, it would make life so much easier for these users and would make OneNote even more popular among the programming and communication crowd.
Please listen to the appeal of this engaged community that loves your technology.
- One more OneNote user on a Mac waiting for Markdown ....
- We all like markdown. Please add spport for markdown!
- Adding one more vote for native markdown support in OneNote.
- I used OneNote for a long time and liked it. But the lack of Markdown support made me switch completely.
If OneNote would be a project of a small dev group I would understand it. But Microsoft? - +1 and all that...
Registered just to +1 this.
Specifically, we would like to create and manage internal product/project documentation in Markdown (via OneNote, Obsidian or other) and make those files available on our Teams/OneDrive(Sharepoint?) sites where our teams can readily access them.- Yep. We want this. Everyone wants this....
