Asana added rich text formatting in June 2014 (https://blog.asana.com/2014/06/rich-text/)
How do you get the formatting metadata from the Asana API?
For example, if I fill in a task description with:
some bold text. some italic text
a list
The API returns the following for the note field, which excludes any formatting info:
"notes":"some bold text. some italic text\n\na list\n\nfoo\n\nbar\n\nsublist \na\nb\nc\nbaz"
We do not currently support rich text formatting via the API. However if you're feeling adventurous, we are currently working on this support, and you can try it out by using html_notes (for tasks) and html_text (for stories). You can request them using ?opt_fields=html_notes, for example.
Note however that this is still very experimental/early support. If the parser doesn't like the HTML you post, it just strips everything back to plaintext. So this is really only if you're feeling particularly adventurous - otherwise, I'd wait until we release full-fledged public support for it, with documentation and everything.