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For one, other markdowns haven't really stuck to a standard, so there are many slightly varied markdown variants and it gets annoying keeping up with them. Ano

For one, other markdowns haven't really stuck to a standard, so there are many slightly varied markdown variants and it gets annoying keeping up with them. Another reason I prefer orgmode is the built in exporting functions are second to none. Customize the css and export to html, or my favorite is to export to latex+pdf, because everyone knows latex makes the most beautiful documents. As an aspiring data scientist (transitioning senior sysadmin), the code snippets function and the ability to evaluate and execute code makes it the ideal data science notebook. The power of lisp stands on its own. Org mode task tracking, todo, GTD functions are also very awesome functions just markdown doesn't have. That's just a few reasons, but orgmode isn't orgmode if it's in visual studio EEE version or whatever the duck new bullshit ms is doing imnsho.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
> or my favorite is to export to latex+pdf, because everyone knows latex makes the most beautiful documents. Hah, my observation from early days of using org-mode: LaTeX makes the most beautiful documents, but writing tables in them absolutely sucks. OTOH, org-mode has the most productive interface to plaintext tables that I've ever seen. When I was working on my BSc thesis, I would make tables in org-mode, and then export them as LaTeX to paste into the thesis code.
- danieldk 9y ago
  org-mode has the most productive interface to plaintext tables that I've ever seen I fully agree. For Markdown I recently found this nice little utility that I had never heard of before: https://tableflipapp.com/ https://tableflipapp.com/ (I still do some websites in Jekyll + Markdown. I know that Jekyll can be combined with org-mode, but Markdown is the 'low-entropy and I do not have time' option.)
- davidmr 9y ago
  That's a statement I hear a lot. A good friend wrote his physics dissertation entirely in org mode because of the TeX integration. You can even bring in the custom TeX templates every University's thesis publishing offices unaccountably seem to have.

TeMPOraL 9y ago

> or my favorite is to export to latex+pdf, because everyone knows latex makes the most beautiful documents. Hah, my observation from early days of using org-mode: LaTeX makes the most beautiful documents, but writing tables in them absolutely sucks. OTOH, org-mode has the most productive interface to plaintext tables that I've ever seen. When I was working on my BSc thesis, I would make tables in org-mode, and then export them as LaTeX to paste into the thesis code.

danieldk 9y ago
org-mode has the most productive interface to plaintext tables that I've ever seen I fully agree. For Markdown I recently found this nice little utility that I had never heard of before: https://tableflipapp.com/ https://tableflipapp.com/ (I still do some websites in Jekyll + Markdown. I know that Jekyll can be combined with org-mode, but Markdown is the 'low-entropy and I do not have time' option.)
davidmr 9y ago
That's a statement I hear a lot. A good friend wrote his physics dissertation entirely in org mode because of the TeX integration. You can even bring in the custom TeX templates every University's thesis publishing offices unaccountably seem to have.