A couple of years ago I went all-in with Apple Notes. Yes, the meme applies:

I’m not going to get into why I’ve been using Apple Notes for... well, a lot. That’s not the point of this short blog post. But if you also use Apple Notes on a daily or close-to-daily basis, then this may interest you.

I can’t remember when or how I stumbled upon NotesCmdr, but I’m so glad I did.

NotesCmdr brings Markdown and slash commands to Apple Notes. That’s it. And it’s awesome.

I’m not the most avid fan of Markdown, but I use it when it makes sense. Frankly, it makes sense in a notes app. To be fair, this isn’t *true* Markdown in Apple Notes. What I mean is that when you, for example, type ## before your heading to format it as a second-level heading, NotesCmdr is simply replacing the ## and text with Notes’ Subheading style. For me, that’s plenty. I don’t need (or particularly like) to see Markdown’s formatting symbols in my notes. Nor do I care that my notes are Apple’s version of rich text.

As for the slash commands in NotesCmdr, they’re handy and work much the same way they do in Notion when it comes to formatting. But there are a couple of bonus slash commands I like:

/code → start a monostyled block
/today → inserts the current date
/template → inserts a pre-created template into your note

That’s pretty much it. That’s all NotesCmdr does. And I love it. It’s handy. And yes, I’m aware of ProNotes. For a while I used it instead of NotesCmdr. What made me switch back is twofold:

When you highlight a word or paragraph, ProNotes will show a floating formatting toolbar. That got annoying real fast.
It started to bug out on me—it would just randomly stop working. 🤷‍♀️

In any case, if you use Apple Notes a lot, either of these tiny apps may be worth checking out.