[andybak]

I've tried to switch from plain text to markdown for notes but the numbered lists drive me mad. A common process is that I want to insert a comment in the middle of a numbered to do list.

  1.. thing
  2.. another thing
  
    Please clarify this point
  
  3.. something
  4.. else

Took me a while to figure out how to break lists. I'd love it if there was some way to tell markdown to not renumber my lists too...

I know this is tricky in wysiwyg editors too but surely it's a fairly common task?

[PeCaN]

Obligatory "org-mode[1] does that very well".

Anyway if you put two spaces after "another thing" ("2. another thing \nPlease clarify...") it should render the way you want.

1. http://orgmode.org/