I know that there are some web browser extensions like Markdown Here, but do you guys know of clients that do the same natively?
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Cool idea! AFAIK emails are just sent as text but the client renders them when you read them. Theoretically it wouldn’t be hard to send markdown and add a header that indicates the body is markdown. Hard part is integrating support into the client. Since HTML is more verbose than markdown, and you can often mix markdown and HTML, this could actually lead to space and data savings!
I think the idea is for your mail client to translate your Markdown into HTML before sending. To convince the whole world’s email ecosystem to directly support Markdown would be an impossibly large lift given that HTML is already virtually universally supported.
Yeah, that’s the idea.
Yeah, some clients allow you to compose in html so I just copy paste from my markdown editor. But it would be nice to skip the copy paste part and just to parse the markdown directly on the client. Also the markdown renderer fails, the markdown is already human readable. So that would be cool.
Tangentially: I generally prefer plain text in email, but I really like this idea. Apparently someone in the Emacs ecosystem thought of this, though that probably doesn’t help you. Enhance Your Emails with Org Mode
I do prefer plain text as well, and I have tried Org mode, just not all the way. So I wil eventually give it a full go. Thank you!
Evolution does.
Thanks for the recommendation, I very quickly found “Markdown Here Revival” for Betterbird. Sorry that I don’t have a recommendation for you though.
no worries
