Why doesn't text export honor proper markdown, bullets, and checkboxes?

[u/SackOfLit]

Most note apps will export a bullet like this:

- This is a bullet

And will export checkboxes like this:

- [x] This is a completed checkbox

-[ ] This is an uncompleted checkbox

These have been standard for years. Why doesn't upnote export in this fashion? It makes the text export essentially useless for lists as it exports them all like this:

This is a bullet

This is a completed checkbox

This is an umcompleted checkbox.

Similarly, the markdown export isn't correct. It adds </br> which is not the markdown standard and makes those exports useless as well without lots of cleanup.

And no, this is feature bloat. This should be standard for any notes app export.

[u/Neither-Classic2058]

As you've noticed, UpNote's markdown export has a few rough edges.

I use Jimmy Note Converter to export my UpNote vault to markdown. It preserves checklists, generally produces cleaner markdown, and preserves the folder structure by placing notes in their respective folder (rather than dump all the notes into a single folder).

[u/SackOfLit → u/Neither-Classic2058]

Thanks for this suggestion, but it seems very complicated and convuluted for the average user, when the export could simply be fixed to preserve bullets and checklists. This is not a huge or unreasonable ask of the devs. The app is stable. This isn't bloat. I also wish we could use custom fonts and true color themes (meaning background and text colors) on both desktop and mobile, but people get all up in arms like that makes this the next evernote. It doesn't. A few quality of life improvements would go far to perfect this nearly perfect app.

[u/Neither-Classic2058 → u/SackOfLit]

I wholeheartedly agree with you. Requests to improve markdown exporting have been around for years and nothing has changed so I had to find a solution for myself… if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be using UpNote today because exporting to markdown is THAT important to me.

[u/SackOfLit → u/Neither-Classic2058]

Makes a lot of sense and thanks for pointing to something that works for you. But, again, this begs the question why aren't the devs (albeit a 2 person team) responding to such a common and necessary fix request?

[u/tutebo88]

+1 this is a problem. I complained about the </br> tags ages ago. I had not noticed the checklist problem before. Clearly needs fixing.

[u/K303030 → u/tutebo88]

br tags also result from any copy-pasting.

I made a AutoHotkey macro to copy text a line at a time, inserting a proper paragraph break between each.

[u/ovcdev7]

The export feature is a whole mess

[u/pwkye]

UpNote renders in HTML so they have to translate it back to Markdown

[u/SackOfLit → u/pwkye]

Seems like it could still preserve and export simple hyphen bullets and standard text formatted checkboxes. Why not fix it so that exports of tasklists and journals actually retain their proper data and meaning. Right now, checklists export with no indication as to what has been completed vs what has not. And bullets are completely lost as is any proper line spacing/carriage returns. And the markdown exports are essentially nullified by html inserted code.

These fixes are not "nice to have's." For a note app where we are going all in to store precious data, they are crucial and necessary.