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* https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzPIoWZMKu_ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9... Here are some of my Markdown documents: * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf (99% pure) * https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_Design https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_... * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdown-part-8/jekyll-hyde.pdf https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow... A lot is possible with Markdown, especially with pandoc extensions.

dv35z 1y ago
(1) These look great - I saved the Impacts so I can keep reading it later. Can you share what the background/reason is for this document? (2) Hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I often take notes with clients in Markdown, and then after the call, do some cleanup. At that point, I would love to export it as a slick-looking PDF, and also HTML which I could paste into Apple Mail. I've done a few experiments with Markdown --> Pandoc --> HTML, but I started to realize I would need to dig deeper into Pandoc, figure out its HTML templates, create CSS. And wasn't sure if I ought to be doing Markdown-->HTML-->PDF. My ideal "flow" would be something like... pandoc 2025-07-18_Client1_Topic.md --style "Client1.css" ---output 2025-07-18_Client1_topic.pdf --output 2025-08.18_Client1_Topic.html When digging around in Pandoc, I also got the impression I would need to learn Tex formatting. I haven't figured out a "stack" on this topic, so thought you might have ideas. Currently, I am using Obsidian for taking notes. Then I use the "Copy as HTML" 3rd party plugin to copy my Markdown notes as basically themed HTML. I then open up MacOS TextEdit, on Rich Text mode, and paste that in. I might do a bit of text formatting here, clean out [ ] markdown links, etc. Next, I copy & paste from TextEdit to Apple Mail. I sometimes color the headings manually, and other basic formatting. Here I'll add the "Hello, " and "Sincerely" wrap around the notes, and send. I'll then check my iPhone Mail to make sure the mail looks OK on Dark Mode. Seems like a huge gap in the "note taking" tooling, but I'm hoping that I'm just ignorant of a few solid tools that can handle this workflow: "Take notes on a call, send them nicely formatted to client in email / PDF" Thanks for any ideas / suggestions you can share! // JRO
- JonChesterfield 1y ago
  cmark is an easy to build C project that reads markdown (commonmark, but close enough) that I also write in obsidian, and writes it as xml or html. You can probably automate some of that conversion process, e.g. with xslt, though I'll admit that's an acquired taste.

dv35z 1y ago

(1) These look great - I saved the Impacts so I can keep reading it later. Can you share what the background/reason is for this document? (2) Hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I often take notes with clients in Markdown, and then after the call, do some cleanup. At that point, I would love to export it as a slick-looking PDF, and also HTML which I could paste into Apple Mail. I've done a few experiments with Markdown --> Pandoc --> HTML, but I started to realize I would need to dig deeper into Pandoc, figure out its HTML templates, create CSS. And wasn't sure if I ought to be doing Markdown-->HTML-->PDF. My ideal "flow" would be something like... pandoc 2025-07-18_Client1_Topic.md --style "Client1.css" ---output 2025-07-18_Client1_topic.pdf --output 2025-08.18_Client1_Topic.html When digging around in Pandoc, I also got the impression I would need to learn Tex formatting. I haven't figured out a "stack" on this topic, so thought you might have ideas. Currently, I am using Obsidian for taking notes. Then I use the "Copy as HTML" 3rd party plugin to copy my Markdown notes as basically themed HTML. I then open up MacOS TextEdit, on Rich Text mode, and paste that in. I might do a bit of text formatting here, clean out [ ] markdown links, etc. Next, I copy & paste from TextEdit to Apple Mail. I sometimes color the headings manually, and other basic formatting. Here I'll add the "Hello, " and "Sincerely" wrap around the notes, and send. I'll then check my iPhone Mail to make sure the mail looks OK on Dark Mode. Seems like a huge gap in the "note taking" tooling, but I'm hoping that I'm just ignorant of a few solid tools that can handle this workflow: "Take notes on a call, send them nicely formatted to client in email / PDF" Thanks for any ideas / suggestions you can share! // JRO

JonChesterfield 1y ago
cmark is an easy to build C project that reads markdown (commonmark, but close enough) that I also write in obsidian, and writes it as xml or html. You can probably automate some of that conversion process, e.g. with xslt, though I'll admit that's an acquired taste.