I got excited as Google AI seemed to suggest this was now possible
Seems like it’s fake news though 
@Bill74 Welcome to the forum!
Yes, that’s a hallucination — which is par for the course with generative AI.
Hi,
I’d like to request adding Markdown support to the Notes in Bitwarden. This would significantly improve the usability of notes by allowing better formatting and organization.
Why this would be useful:
- Organize multi-line recovery instructions or account-related information more clearly.
- Highlight important details using headers, bold/italic text, or bullet points.
- Store formatted code snippets, which is especially helpful for developer managing sensitive keys or scripts.
- Create checklists directly in notes for tasks related to accounts or systems.
Looking forward to seeing if this could be considered in future updates!
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Using the Notes fields in BW vault items is stupidly painful if the notes are of any length.
Markdown has been widespread for 10 years so I think it’s high time for Bitwarden to adopt it.
(I’d actually much prefer rich text but I suspect that will never happen.)
BW should take a look at 1Password’s support for markdown.
If markdown is supported, longer Notes will become more manageable, so the length limit should be increased from the current 10,000 characters.
Especially (but not only) if longer Notes are supported, there needs to be a way to search in a Note while viewing it or editing it.
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You can use the browser’s native search function to do this already in the Web Vault and browser extension (if you first “pop out” the extension window), but this capability is missing in the Desktop app. There is a relevan feature request here:
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100% MD is so widely used this should be a must have in a password manager for storing notes. The character limit is an issue so you are left with attaching notes which is not the best way forward.
I have already lost attachments which have become unreadable in BW (scary) and you want to be able to relay on this to store important notes correctly.
Old attachments (from 2018 and earlier) use a deprecated encryption method and must be updated in the Web Vault. More recently, a small number of users were affected by a bug that corrupted some file attachments in vault items that were edited during the summer months of 2025.
If you are referring to something different, please provide additional detail by posting in the following thread (if it seems relevant to your situation), or by starting a new thread of your own:
To avoid diverting the topic of this feature request (which would be in violation of forum rules), please do not respond in this thread.
Thanks for the reply, I think I got caught in the recent issue in 2025. Lucky I had another back up of the item or it could have been pretty bad, this was a file securing an encrypted vault.
Not going to lie it did shake my confidence in bitwarden as this was a close call, so I lost some faith in the storage of files and had to change the way I was encrypting that vault.
Back to the markdown item, if we have a better way of storing notes (longer and better formatting) then this removes some reliance on trusting bitwarden attachments to remain intact.
I just saw this thread and I came here regarding the desire to see some basic formatting options (bold, italics, and maybe underlining and/or strikethrough) for the notes fields. I would prefer this for all entries, not just secure notes.
I think it is understood that this feature request (if implemented) would apply generally to the Notes field (under Additional Options), whether the vault item type is a Note, Login, Card, Identity, or SSH key.
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Some examples why current notes field IMHO needs improvement
- It is always 5 lines high, even for vault entries of type note (!) with dozens of lines
That’s too little for many use cases like instructions, checklists, code,… At least for entries of type note, the heigth shall be auto-adjusting to the content until app’s heigth is consumed. - It cannot be configured to monospace making e.g tables in “markdown source code” really hard to read. Whether monospace is default or a configuration that is application wide or just for one collection or one entry − different discussion.
- Lists have no proper indention, i.e. a line longer than around 60 chars or containing “at width end” one long character sequence without recognised word boundaries is wrapped to the next line and starting at column 1, not column 3, 5 or whatever is proper for the indention level. This affects readability.
- It does not support to enter TAB, so you cannot enter the text you actually need (e.g. CSV snippets), and it’s cumbersome to format in plain text (you can neither hit TAB at line start for indention, nor select several lines and press TAB to indent many at once e.g. add a list level)
- It’s more work to add a new entry in the middle of an ordered list because you must manually update all following numbers, while rendering markdown or other syntax will automatically set the numbers
Disclaimer: I am aware these points are not strictly on topic, but closely related e.g. motivations why I would like any syntax rendering (markdown, mediawiki, HTML,…)
You can already use Markdown in notes. … you can visually interpret all the formatting,
True, provided the system properly supports me in visually interpret markdown. Give me monospace and option to make notes wider and a toggle for word wrap and horizontal mouse wheel support, and I remove my vote for markdown rendering 
Adding software-assisted formatted editing will make Bitwarden bigger
That’s IMHO a really weak argument seeing that e.g. KeePass installation is 8MByte while BW windows desktop app has 288MBytes − the lines of code to render markdown will hardly be noticeable at all, and other aspects of BW are certainly much stronger size drivers…
It would in the long run compromise *security* and *reliability*, which are far more important for a password manager.
While I fully share your priorities, I disagree that markdown rendering necessarily compromises security & reliability.
You are right about this, and there are already existing Feature Request topics (and at least one bug report) for some of the things that you’ve mentioned:
Don’t want to add an additional post if this could be covered here. If you paste in some text from Word or Notepad++, tabs work correctly. You can delete tab but I can’t work out if there is a way to enter them. Tab doesn’t work and neither does all the obvious alternatives alt-tab, shift-tab and ctrl-tab. As I was typing this I wondered if Alt-numpad 009 worked - and it does! But hardly memorable/handy 
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