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Bear Blog uses markdown for formatting. If you haven't fallen in love with it yet, you will. There are already a couple of plugins out there for this, like the Markdown Power-Editor and EasyMDE. Both are impressive and definitely worth checking out. Personally though, I wanted something simpler. Something that almost feels like it could have shipped with Bear by default. I also wanted to be able to select chunks of text and apply formatting to multiple lines at once. So this is what I came up with... It hides by default, sitting next to Bear's own "Markdown syntax" link at the bottom of the editor. Click "Format" and you get this: B I link | " • 1. | code block Despite its bear minimum look, it has a few thoughtful touches: Blockquote adds proper line breaks automatically for multi-line selections. Numbered list prefixes each line sequentially. Bold, italic, and inline code toggle (applying the shortcut again on already-formatted text removes the formatting). It also includes keyboard…

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