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I'd love to see Markdown support in MS OneNote...

• noworriesnate 1y ago
  OneNote lets you add content in a canvas. It would be cool if there was an ASCII canvas note taking tool but I think it would have to be built on plain text from the ground up.
  • anentropic 1y ago
    Yeah I meant just within the individual text blocks, the canvas itself can't be Markdown of course It's such a more convenient way of "styling while you type" and has become the de facto way to do that... in Slack, Reddit comments, GitHub, Jira, Confluence etc... even MS Teams, they all allow Markdown "styling while you type"
• sylens 1y ago
  OneNote feels like such a laggard in this space. They don't even have support for code blocks
  • anentropic 1y ago
    It's main reason why I want Markdown within text blocks TBH
  • accrual 1y ago
    And it's odd because Teams has first class support for many Markdown elements. I wrap code blocks in "```" all the time.
• cheema33 1y ago
  I was a heavy user of MS OneNote. It got slower and slower as I added more notes. And some notes got long. And then I discovered Obsidian with Markdown support. Now the idea of using OneNote sends shivers down my spine.
  • anentropic 1y ago
    I have some big notes and tbh I find it totally fine (on macOS) The two things that would make a world of difference to me are: - having a 'code block' style, preferably accessed via familiar single and triple-backticks markdown syntax - for the Android app to have a "magnifying cursor" like mobile apps are all supposed to have... trying to edit a note and drag the cursor around with your finger without having the little magnifying popup is a complete pain