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So it’s basically just markdown? This is what everyone has been raving about?
by symlinkk 6y ago
So it’s basically just markdown? This is what everyone has been raving about?
- dbmikus 6y agoNah, not even close (but I can see someone getting that impression from the landing page). To various extents it can replace: - a task manager - an outliner - Jupyter notebooks - Evernote (and other bookmarking and note capture systems) - LaTeX, DocBook, and equivalent (although you fall back on LaTeX for math)
- anyfoo 6y agoNo, it's much richer than markdown, and a single glance at the manual would probably have prevented this comment: https://orgmode.org/manual/ https://orgmode.org/manual/ I use markdown for documentation that I want to publish/package with something. I use org-mode for project notes and organizing.
- GlennS 6y agoMarkdown plus some other useful stuff: + really good keyboard shortcuts + better header structure + better tables + calendar + interactive multi-language literate programming environment + some other stuff that I don't use
- input_sh 6y agoCan you elaborate the better header structure?
- jeromenerf 6y agoOrg mode supports adding metadata to the whole document (a la pandoc, frontmatter) and any node. There are a lot of properties (dates, settings, user defined ...). With pandoc, the frontmatter metadata are only used when exporting the document. With org mode, the metadata are also used during editing, executing code, etc. The headings themselves can embed tags.
- GlennS 6y agoTurns out this is me mis-remembering. They're basically identical. Probably it's just org-mode's useful built-in shortcuts for moving the headers around and folding them that made me think it was better in that regard. Presumably there are markdown editors with similar behaviour.