How to sync your Markdown docs to Microsoft Loop and vice versa

How to sync your Markdown docs to Microsoft Loop and vice versa¶ TL;DR - No sync! It's copy and paste, with Base64 encoding for images. Over the last months, there was an attempt by Microsoft to give plain-text Markdown formatting a bit of an entryway into its walled garden of Word, SharePoint and MS Loop. In Word Online, I can use # Heading to create a real document outline. MS Loop, the Notion clone and better-looking version of OneNote, understands Markdown blocks as well. And last but not least, opening a .md file in SharePoint now presents the file in a nice split-view editor. For a developer thrown into the cold '90s office environment, it's a real PITA. An Obsidian vault synced with OneNote to a SharePoint Library is certainly possible, but in order to comply with our team's use of Loop for documentation, it gets tricky. That's especially relevant since Copilot Pages, Microsoft's editable canvas for Copilot responses, can be edited in Loop as well. Anyways, the goal is to…