strip markdown syntax for title

browser/components/MarkdownPreview.js

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ export default class MarkdownPreview extends React.Component {
     `
 
     this.refs.root.contentWindow.document.body.setAttribute('data-theme', theme)
-    this.refs.root.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML = markdown(value)
+    this.refs.root.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML = markdown.render(value)
 
     Array.prototype.forEach.call(this.refs.root.contentWindow.document.querySelectorAll('a'), (el) => {
       el.addEventListener('click', this.anchorClickHandler)

browser/lib/markdown.js

@@ -129,8 +129,40 @@ md.renderer.render = function render (tokens, options, env) {
 }
 window.md = md
 
-export default function markdown (content) {
+function strip (input) {
-  if (!_.isString(content)) content = ''
+  var output = input
-
+  try {
-  return md.render(content)
+    output = output
+      .replace(/^([\s\t]*)([\*\-\+]|\d\.)\s+/gm, '$1')
+      .replace(/\n={2,}/g, '\n')
+      .replace(/~~/g, '')
+      .replace(/`{3}.*\n/g, '')
+      .replace(/<(.*?)>/g, '$1')
+      .replace(/^[=\-]{2,}\s*$/g, '')
+      .replace(/\[\^.+?\](\: .*?$)?/g, '')
+      .replace(/\s{0,2}\[.*?\]: .*?$/g, '')
+      .replace(/\!\[.*?\][\[\(].*?[\]\)]/g, '')
+      .replace(/\[(.*?)\][\[\(].*?[\]\)]/g, '$1')
+      .replace(/>/g, '')
+      .replace(/^\s{1,2}\[(.*?)\]: (\S+)( ".*?")?\s*$/g, '')
+      .replace(/^\#{1,6}\s*([^#]*)\s*(\#{1,6})?/gm, '$1')
+      .replace(/([\*_]{1,3})(\S.*?\S)\1/g, '$2')
+      .replace(/(`{3,})(.*?)\1/gm, '$2')
+      .replace(/^-{3,}\s*$/g, '')
+      .replace(/`(.+?)`/g, '$1')
+      .replace(/\n{2,}/g, '\n\n')
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(e)
+    return input
   }
+  return output
+}
+
+const markdown = {
+  render: function markdown (content) {
+    if (!_.isString(content)) content = ''
+    return md.render(content)
+  },
+  strip
+}
+export default markdown

browser/main/Detail/MarkdownNoteDetail.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import FolderSelect from './FolderSelect'
 import dataApi from 'browser/main/lib/dataApi'
 import { hashHistory } from 'react-router'
 import ee from 'browser/main/lib/eventEmitter'
+import markdown from 'browser/lib/markdown'
 
 const electron = require('electron')
 const { remote } = electron
@@ -72,6 +73,8 @@ class MarkdownNoteDetail extends React.Component {
       }
     }
 
+    title = markdown.strip(title)
+
     return title
   }