v. 15.0.612
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✦Standard Markdown, Footnotes, and Diagrams — Now for Everyone
These features — previewed by TheBrain Max subscribers over the last two releases — are now available to all users.
Notes Saved as Standard Markdown
- Turn it on in Settings > Brain > Content > Notes Format —
- or from the Insert menu, where a brain still using TheBrain's original format offers Enable Footnotes and Diagrams
- Notes are then saved as standard Markdown — GitHub-flavored Markdown with extensions for highlights, callouts, and image sizing — so a note file can be read and edited in other Markdown tools and still come back intact
- Task lists, tables, strikethrough, underline, text styling, and inline math use common Markdown syntax that is not unique to TheBrain
- Notes convert one at a time as you edit them, so nothing changes until you touch it. The switch is permanent for that brain, making this a one-way conversion to standard Markdown
- Viewing a note as Text or in Split view always shows standard Markdown in a brain where it is enabled
- Brains created by importing your data use standard Markdown from the start, and opening a secondary .md file that still uses the older format offers to convert it
- Warning: Once a brain is switched to standard Markdown, prior versions of TheBrain cannot open it — you must update to the latest version of TheBrain on all of your devices, including phones and tablets