{"id":183462,"date":"2025-08-29T00:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:43:17","slug":"apple-notes-in-ios-26-works-better-than-ever-with-my-favorite-writing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183462\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Notes in iOS 26 works better than ever with my favorite writing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756428192_403_apple-notes-ios-26.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple Notes gets upgraded with new features every year, and iOS 26 is no exception. Among the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/17\/heres-everything-new-for-apple-notes-in-ios-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handful of Notes changes in iOS 26<\/a>, the app now works better than ever with Markdown thanks to import and export support for my go-to writing tool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/notes-export-markdown-ios-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1005889\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Markdown is a text formatting tool <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">created by John Gruber<\/a> and commonly used by journalists, researchers, developers, content creators, and other online writers. I personally use it every day for all my 9to5Mac writing.<\/p>\n<p>Gruber\u2019s creation enables writing plain text that utilizes headings, links, bulleted and numbered lists, bold and italics formatting, and more. You can then take that plain text and turn it into a published format like HTML or rich text.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Markdown\u2019s increasing popularity over the years, Apple Notes has never supported it.<\/p>\n<p>But in iOS 26, Notes lets users both import and export text using Markdown.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to import Markdown into a note, this can be done in one of two ways:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can share a Markdown file using the share sheet, and hit the Notes icon to import it<\/li>\n<li>Or in iPadOS 26, there\u2019s an \u2018Import to Notes\u2026\u2019 option in Notes\u2019 new menu bar \u2018File\u2019 menu<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/notes-import-markdown-ios-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1016149\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Exporting is also done via the share sheet, but from inside the note you want to export.<\/p>\n<p>Just hit the new \u2018Export as Markdown\u2019 option in the share sheet.<\/p>\n<p>This new iOS 26 addition means that Notes can now be used to write in Markdown. However, you won\u2019t see styling take effect inside the app, only after it\u2019s exported.<\/p>\n<p>And you can easily bring existing Markdown files into Notes and have them retain important formatting as part of the import process\u2014including links, headings, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited to see Markdown import and export come to Apple Notes in iOS 26? 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