Right arrow character (>) starts a Toggle block instead of a blockquote. This is very different than what most Markdown flavours suggest (ex. [CommonMark spec](CommonMark Spec)). In context of Anytype, > should rather start a Highlighted block rather than a Toggle.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Open any note or create a new note
Enter the > character and write some text after that
Anytype converts it into a Toggle
Expected behavior
> character should initiate a blockquote or Highlighted block
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I agree. Adherence to mostly widespread markdown should be a high priority. Unfortunately toggles are not part of any normal markdown spec, and > is a pretty intuitive one to use. If only markdown had used | for quotes, since that’s how most quote blocks are rendered anyway! But it’s a problem for the team to figure out.
@Inkqb Just to clarify, there is a difference between the in-line formatting shortcut (generally Anytype - and most modern apps - use markdown for this) and the “keyboard shortcut” (usually a modifier key like Ctrl and another key, e.g. a letter). Most people that use in-line formatting are used to markdown, and it is broadly supported, so it makes sense to adhere to that standard as much as possible. That fortunately doesn’t preclude there being a keyboard shortcut for creating a toggle block like e.g. Ctrl+>. It doesn’t look like there is one yet, but I think there should be.
I am coming from Notion and they are also using the “>” for creating a toggle. Since it can be expected that many AnyType users will have used Notion before, it might be a good idea to adopt such established practices from there. To me, it’s quite natural to create a block quote by entering a quotation mark as first character, followed by a blank.