Using notes is handy as you can have it in multiple devices and makes transition almost effortless. I'm willing to move some of these to Markdown so I can share the content and add formatting to it. Is it possible to be done by default? The only export option is to PDF. If there is some hack that I can apply I'm happy to spend some cycles on that but maybe there is already an option I'm missing. I've find a few questions pointing to apps to directly do this (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/7957/editor-or-notes-application-with-markdown-support) , but I'm trying to find an alternative with the native app.

On MacOS 12.6.9, I try to convert a Markdown file to PDF. For this, I'm using pandoc 3.1.2, installed with Homebrew. There are problems converting the characters ∧ and ∨, which I use for expressing logical formulas. For instance, with this file utf.md X ∧ Y ∨ Z which in hex (xxd utf.md) would be 5820 e288 a720 5920 e288 a820 5a0a 0a and LANG being set to en_GB.UTF-8, the command pandoc -s -o utf.pdf utf.md produces the error message Error producing PDF. ! LaTeX Error: Unicode character ∧ (U+2227) not set up for use with LaTeX. Googling for the problem, I found the suggestion to use _xelatex_ as LaTeX engine. So I tried pandoc -s --pdf-engine=xelatex -o utf.pdf utf.md This resulted in [WARNING] Missing character: There is no ∧ (U+2227) (U+2227) in font [lmroman10-regular]:mapping=t [WARNING] Missing character: There is no ∨ (U+2228) (U+2228) in font [lmroman10-regular]:mapping=t and, not surprisingly, the generated pdf file did not include those two characters. I conclude that the font (_lmroman10-regular_) does not include glyphs for these characters. No my question is: What font would be suitable here, and how do I specify that font for pandoc? **UPDATE** About the font reported by Pandoc (_lmroman10_): I looked at the fonts installed on my Mac (using the the application _Font Book_), and there is no font named _lmroman_, so I'm puzzled where pandoc gets this font from.

I'm trying to do what should be a fairly simple task: have Finder and Quick Look view .md and .markdown files as if they had the extension .txt. As per previous answers on this topic, I had installed the QLMarkdown plugin in my /Library/Quicklook to make this happen, and it was working fine for a while. Recently I had a hardware disaster that required Apple to wipe and replace my hard drive, with the new one running Monterey. In this new system, the QLMarkdown plugin is not working. I tried copying the latest version (1.3.6) into the /Library/Quicklook and, as per the readme , I ran qlmanage -r in the terminal to refresh. Then I got an error from Apple saying it would not run because Apple could not check it for malicious software. No option to override. The previous answers suggest I could install Homebrew and run "brew cask install qlmarkdown", but following the [Homebrew install instructions](https://brew.sh/) wound up causing a system freeze and reboot - and QuickLook wasn't working any better after that. How do I get QuickLook to recognize Markdown on Monterey under these circumstances?

When trying to save a text file with a different extension Shortcuts always appends the .txt extension to the file name. For example when trying to extract text from notes or clipboard, convert them to Markdown and save the output to a file some-title.md, the saved file will be called some-title.md.txt. Shortcut example: How can I enforce the desired extension?

I have an Automator service that takes selected text and saves it in a file. However, bold, italics, and linked URLS aren't preserved. Is there a way I can convert it to Markdown before I save it? When I searched Google, I only found guides to convert plain text to HTML.

My requirements are a markdown editor for iOS which supports inline Latex syntax (and preview). Limited Latex support is fine, full support is better, extensible is best. I’m looking for something better than Pages which supports a very small subset of Latex and has limited markdown support. What free or paid options exist?

I've been using Typora as a Markdown editor when it was free (during beta), but now it's pay for use and I want to find an equivalent, free (preferably open source) tool. **My requirements**: - free (preferably open source) - rather than a separate editing and preview pane, I want the editing to happen in the same pane in which the Markdown code is rendered, i.e., WYSIWYG. This is what Typora does - support for drawing tables, bulleted/numbered lists, code fences, import images, etc. Basically, the same features as the post editor on Stack Exchange, but WYSIWYG instead of separate editing/preview panes - rendering of math formulas - runs on Monterey **Research**: I googled around a bit and I found the following; - Mou app seemed to have been widely recommended in the past, but it's not being developed anymore (and anyway it cannot be downloaded, since the site is down) - MacDown is active, but it has separated editing and rendering panes - similarly for VS Code

I would like to be able to read markdown (.md) files with Quick Look . Unfortunately, it just appears like this: Is there any way that I can be able to see the contents of this file? I don't care whether it's in rendered or unrendered format, just that I can see it somehow.

Drafts is marketed as a Markdown editor, and supposedly it saves your files in iCloud. However, if you open the "Drafts" folder inside iCloud Drive there is not a Markdown file in sight. In my opinion, the biggest value of using Markdown is to avoid vendor lock-in, and to never risk being held captive by a single app, especially one with a subscription model. (Not to mention the ability to open the files with different apps that have different strengths, more or less a corollary of the first thing. I should be free to use TextMate or Visual Studio Code or nvim if something I want to do with the file is better done there.) Drafts seems like a very useful app, but what in the world is going on with my Markdown files?

Anyone have any help, tools, advice, etc. on batch converting RTF to Markdown in MacOS? I've used Automator a little but when I tried the advice in this thread , I couldn't get it to work. I'd love some advice on how I can handle this. I was able to install the linked services from Brett Terpstra, though they don't really show up in Quick Actions or in Automator, but only in the Touch Bar controls for some reason. When I try to install the RTF to Markdown service from the thread, it doesn't seem to show up in Services or Quick Actions. When I drag the service into Automator, and try to run it, I just get an error. I truly don't know what I'm doing wrong or how to get this to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I am very much a novice at this, so please bear with me. I'm intrigued by the idea of using Markdown. I want to be able to write my stuff in a plaintext editor on OS X and iOS and save it in Dropbox in .txt format using a Markdown syntax. I don't want to save my files in markdown format but as plain text. I need support for footnotes, so the Multimarkdown syntax seems like an obvious option. What tools can I use on OS X and iOS to convert my .txt files, marked up with a Markdown syntax, to .pdf format? Is this even possible? Thanks for reading.

My default app to open .md markdown files is VS Code, which unfortunately doesn't provide quick look support for markdown files: I've installed other apps that provide quick look for markdown files, how do I make quick look to use them without changing the default app for opening markdown files?

I have this text to manipulate in AppleScript (e.g. the text of a variable):

Example note exported from Apple.


  
Indent
  

    
*Further* indent
    

      
Even **further **indent. With a [link](https://duck.com) .
    
  


End note.

I'm converting it all to Markdown from HTML. I need to clean up this remaining bit of HTML which is the bullet list, so that the result is (with real tabs as indent space):

Example note exported from Apple.

- Indent
	- *Further* indent
		- Even **further **indent. With a [link](https://duck.com) .

End note.

It has to be able to cater to nested indenting to any 'n' number of levels, and with possibly some rich text inside the items such as this example. I prefer Markdown output to use hyphens and a tab for the indenting. It also has to be containable inside the applescript - no external .py files etc, and to not require homebrew or a third party tool to be installed.

I have a text file or some text to process via the clipboard. It contains a few lines of HTML code, and I'd like to convert it to pure Markdown. E.g. from: This is a link: link to: This is a link: [link](https://duck.com) Is there pure AppleScript code (using regex substitution) that can do this? Alternatively, I am happy with AppleScript calling any CLI tool to process the text via do shell script if it's an in-built text which doesn't require homebrew or a third party tool to be installed.

Finder shows the Chinese characters 文件 next the md text in the Kind column for Markdown files: Same is shown in the inspector: Through Google Translate I found that the characters 文件 mean file in Chinese. Why is Finder showing the word file in md file in Chinese? How can I revert it to English? [Here](http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=19058987172706378188) I've uploaded a sample file that shows this behaviour on my machine. I'm on macOS 10.15.3, the preferred system language is English (UK). No other files show any Chinese characters. ## What I've tried Per [suggestion of bjbk](https://apple.stackexchange.com/revisions/384375/2) I've set the Open with to Visual Studio Code and restarted. This did not change the Kind column contents. Per [suggestion of WGroleau](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/384328/why-does-the-kind-column-show-the-chinese-characters-%e6%96%87%e4%bb%b6-for-markdown-files?noredirect=1#comment523626_384328) I checked if file README.md returned the same Chinese characters. It does not, it simply returns:

README.md: UTF-8 Unicode text

I've tried using the [mdls](https://ss64.com/osx/mdls.html) command on the file, it shows that the content type is com.unknown.md. Maybe that's can help pinpoint the issue? Full mdls output below:

_kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions      = "README.md"
kMDItemContentCreationDate             = 2020-01-20 21:18:03 +0000
kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking     = 2020-01-20 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate         = 2020-03-14 17:21:13 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentType                     = "com.unknown.md"
kMDItemContentTypeTree                 = (
    "com.unknown.md",
    "public.text",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content",
    "public.plain-text"
)
kMDItemDateAdded                       = 2020-03-14 17:18:56 +0000
kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking               = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName                     = "README.md"
kMDItemDocumentIdentifier              = 0
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate             = 2020-03-14 17:21:13 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate                  = 2020-01-20 21:18:03 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode                   = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags                   = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon                 = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible                     = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden             = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery                  = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel                         = 0
kMDItemFSName                          = "README.md"
kMDItemFSNodeCount                     = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID                  = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID                   = 502
kMDItemFSSize                          = 97
kMDItemFSTypeCode                      = ""
kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking         = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemKind                            = "md"
kMDItemLastUsedDate                    = 2020-03-14 17:21:05 +0000
kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking            = 2020-03-14 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemLogicalSize                     = 97
kMDItemPhysicalSize                    = 4096
kMDItemUseCount                        = 21
kMDItemUsedDates                       = (
    "2020-03-13 23:00:00 +0000"
)

I'm looking for a way to make all my markdown file universal that is work on iOS, Mac, even Linux/Window/Android. I want to have a single folder where I stick all my images and then point to that folder from whatever OS/device I'm using. For example

~/img/image.png

would be readable in the .md file from anywhere. Does anything like that exist? Can I use iCloud or Dropbox for that? Are there any other solutions people may suggest?

Sometimes we add a file readme.txt in our folder for notes or things to know about. Using Markdown, it is pretty easy to make it into a nicely formatted document. Can we write a README.md and can use any free and reliable app and use the Mac to read it? (So far I know Atom has a Markdown-preview which can be activated by using the keyboard shortcut Control + Shift + M, but if there is a one click preview app, it'd be the best. There is a Quick Look plug-in , but I am wondering if I should alter my OS? If there is a trustworthy app that can do it, it'd be best).

I am looking for the best combination for working on a structured document and sharing it in Markdown format. My favorite editor is Pages, in full screen mode. There I can see how the finished document actually will look like. Unfortunately, there is no direct export to markdown. I've seen another question on the topic focusing on Markdown editors (I've tried a few) but I'd like to know if there's a clean way to export from Pages to Markdown. Any ideas?

I write all my emails in plain text, not rich text or HTML, but I do use punctuation markup as has been popularized by Markdown and others (which were inspired by prior customs in plain-text email). There’s [RFC] 7763 now, which registers the text/markdown media type with mandatory charset and optional variant parameters. Can I change Apple Mail to always send a respective MIME header? Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=pandoc; extensions=-raw_html I hope for some defaults write magic since there doesn’t seem to be a respective plugin available (yet ). Something like this: defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders \ '{"Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=pandoc; extensions=-raw_html"; }'

Does anybody know how to share local Ulysses content across Mac user accounts? I can see the local content is not stored at a user-specific directory: ~/Library/Containers/com.soulmen.ulysses3 I have a Admin account and a Standard account. I want to share all of my files between these accounts. But when I open my Ulysses on my new Admin account, I cannot see or specify the location of local files.