Simplenote: make text formatting less obtrusive

Hm, what would be the desired behavior?

Would you prefer the formatting to be stripped away? Then after syncing back, the formatting would disappear in CN as well.

So I assume simplenote doesn't support formatting at all?

Well, the desired behavior would be that I can read my notes on simplenote (e.g. strip the formatting) but of course I don't want to loose the formatting in CN.

So I seems we need a workaround - but what could that be?

What will you do in the future when you support attachments to notes?

Will those be lost after syncing a note to simplenote and changing the content there?

I have no simple solution to this problem - any ideas?

Simplenote supports some Markdown, so probably we could go that route.

But all in all, it is really simple and now even sections need to be emulated via specially named tags.

Regarding attachments, seems we'll have to get creative, since Simplenote doesn't support attaching any custom data to notes (even Uids now have to go into the note's text, which annoys the heck out of many people, but is necessary for correct note linking).

I reckon there will be several options for the user to choose:

1) Base64 encode attachments directly into note's text - ugly, but will ensure no info is lost;

2) Store attachments separately in a (possibly Dropbox-synced) folder

3) Don't sync attachments at all (when no full-duplex sync is necessary)

I doubt we could do better here, but if you have any suggestions, you're welcome.

This dilemma is partly the reason why it takes so long to implement attachments.

Ok I'll investigate the possibilities.. But this bug needs to get several votes first)

Agreed, let's turn it into a feature suggestion ;) Thanks!