Notenik 16.2.1 Available for Beta Testing on January 17th, 2025

This beta includes the following changes:

Minimum macOS Version Changed to 13.5

Finally updated minimum macOS requirement to 13.5 (Ventura). Sonoma and Sequoia are also supported. Older versions of macOS are no longer supported.

Added Function to Paste Formatted Text as Markdown

Beneath the Edit menu there is now an option to Paste Formatted → Markdown. This has a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl-V. This function will attempt to convert the contents of the system clipboard to Markdown, with first priority being given to RTF (rich text) if it is available, otherwise HTML. The HTML function uses the open source package SwiftHTMLToMarkdown. This is intended to a conversion that is better than nothing, but certainly not comprehensive.

Note that the ability to convert formatted text to Markdown is very provisional, and incomplete, but I wanted to get a beta out there so I could get some feedback from others on this functionality (limited though it is).

This beta version is no longer available. Look for a later beta release or the most recent Mac App Store release.

I have to admit that this feature is growing on me. Being able to convert from RTF was the hook. Text copied from Web Archives also paste clean as Markdown and the keyboard shortcut aids the experience.

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The RTF conversion certainly needs some additional work, but the HTML conversion seems to be working well.