New Highlighter: Addressing your feedback and next steps

[matteo]

@AleemShaun

I’m curious about the rationale for exporting a colour emoji in the highlight markdown syntax (for all non-default colours) - what’s the perceived benefit? I’d prefer it was just standard markdown syntax regardless of the chosen colour.

There are several advantages to doing this:

1. You can re-import the Markdown into Bear, and your color formatting will remain intact.

2. Markdown is designed to be readable without a specialized editor, so preserving the color information in plain text ensures that the meaning remains clear:

   

3. Ideally, if this gains popularity, other editors could easily adopt support for it as well.

@AleemShaun

Also, is there any possibility/likelihood of being able to select a different default colour option?

This is a bit challenging, as changing the default syntax color would alter the meaning in all of your existing notes. We’ve considered it, but we worry it could create confusion.