From the early “# ~Welcome~ to the #Bear beta!” note:
New Markdown experience
Bear notes use Markdown, a simple, standard way to style to plain text with bold, italics, lists, links, and more. When text is wrapped with underscores or asterisks, Markdown-friendly apps know to italicize and bold that text, respectively.
When text is wrapped with _underscores_ or **asterisks**,
Markdown-friendly apps know to italicize and bold that text,
respectively.
-
I’m using
_underscores_
to italicize in my other Markdown app, and it would be nice to get an option for chosing_underscores_
instead of*asterisks*
(as it is now by default) for italics. -
Same goes for unordered lists: Would be nice to be able to choose
- space
instead of* space
as default markup for lists.
This would make it easier to copy/paste from Bear into other apps.
WhatsApp recently started supporting _underscores_
for italics and *asterisks*
for bold
- space
for Unordered lists, 1. space
for ordered lists and > space
for quotes.
Have no idea why they chose single *
wrap for bold instead of standard **bold**
, but what to do?
Anyway, making bear able to use _italics_
and - Lists item
as defaults would be helpful. I often write longer chats with lists etc in a note app before copy/pasting it in WhatsApp. Now I’m using Drafts for that instead of Bear.
I could of course manually type _italics_
and - space
for lists, but unordered list do not show markup in Bear as of now, so difficult to see what markup is used: *
or -
or even a mix of the two. It doesn’t even show when you unhide Markdown in settings.