This is where Org-mode succeeds over Markdown. Inline image support adds a whole new level to plaintext markup. Sure, you could implement an inline-image-viewi

This is where Org-mode succeeds over Markdown. Inline image support adds a whole new level to plaintext markup. Sure, you could implement an inline-image-viewing ability into your editor for Markdown, too, and I'm sure someone's done that for Emacs (maybe it's a default feature I haven't enabled), but that's the vanilla functionality for Org-mode. Not a secondary-layer afterthought.