Gruber on Apple Notes' Markdown Export ➹

I’ve always found it kind of amusing that Markdown became the lingua franca of LLMs to the point where it is everywhere in the internals of training, finetuning, response parsing, etc., and am not surprised that Apple decided to export from Notes in it at this particular time (to be honest, they’re just late to the party, since I have long had shortcuts and RTF conversions around).

But some of the remarks–especially the concern that “it shouldn’t be possible to have a malformed note in Apple Notes”—strike a chord. It’s clear that, regardless of what you think about storing your data in Notes, retaining the simplicity of the existing interface is key, and that John has his own mind about the whole thing that is completely free of any of the entanglements you might expect.