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What do you use for writing markdown? Any recommendations? I use org mode very lightly, mostly just collapsing information I don’t want care about as I’m writi

What do you use for writing markdown? Any recommendations? I use org mode very lightly, mostly just collapsing information I don’t want care about as I’m writing and making formatted tables. I’ve thought about exploring markdown and other editors but I haven’t really seen evidence it would be much of a gain.

smartmic 3y ago
My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc. I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/ https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.
- dingnuts 3y ago
  notably, the above mode lacks the single feature the grandparent uses: collapsing sub headings. In addition, it requires an external tool to export org of course can be exported into many formats without an external tool, including several plain text formats and HTML, and is also understood by pandoc
  - smartmic 3y ago
    For most of my writing (journal entries, notes), I have never needed the collapsible subheading and export functionality because I write primarily for myself. If I think a note is ready to be published on my blog, I will still rewrite, edit, and polish it in a separate file. Mostly also in Markdown, because the structure of such articles does not go very deep (I am not a fan of many levels of headings) and my static site generator handles the export to HTML in a fully automated way. No need to export anything manually.
  - nequo 3y ago
    I use Org but markdown-mode can hide subsections too: markdown-mode supports outline-minor-mode as well as org-mode-style visibility cycling for atx- or hash-style headings. There are two types of visibility cycling: Pressing S-TAB cycles globally between the table of contents view (headings only), outline view (top-level headings only), and the full document view. Pressing TAB while the point is at a heading will cycle through levels of visibility for the subtree: completely folded, visible children, and fully visible. (Quote from the link shared by parent.)
    - dingnuts 3y ago
      oh, my apologies. I both use this mode and searched for the above functionality on the above link "to be sure" before commenting, but I guess I missed it. In my feeble defense, it's hard to confirm a feature is missing T_T;;
      - BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
        I'm actually really glad you wrote that comment because I've been writing my blog in markdown for years and I had no idea you could collapse headings

smartmic 3y ago

My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc. I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/ https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.

dingnuts 3y ago
notably, the above mode lacks the single feature the grandparent uses: collapsing sub headings. In addition, it requires an external tool to export org of course can be exported into many formats without an external tool, including several plain text formats and HTML, and is also understood by pandoc
- smartmic 3y ago
  For most of my writing (journal entries, notes), I have never needed the collapsible subheading and export functionality because I write primarily for myself. If I think a note is ready to be published on my blog, I will still rewrite, edit, and polish it in a separate file. Mostly also in Markdown, because the structure of such articles does not go very deep (I am not a fan of many levels of headings) and my static site generator handles the export to HTML in a fully automated way. No need to export anything manually.
- nequo 3y ago
  I use Org but markdown-mode can hide subsections too: markdown-mode supports outline-minor-mode as well as org-mode-style visibility cycling for atx- or hash-style headings. There are two types of visibility cycling: Pressing S-TAB cycles globally between the table of contents view (headings only), outline view (top-level headings only), and the full document view. Pressing TAB while the point is at a heading will cycle through levels of visibility for the subtree: completely folded, visible children, and fully visible. (Quote from the link shared by parent.)
  - dingnuts 3y ago
    oh, my apologies. I both use this mode and searched for the above functionality on the above link "to be sure" before commenting, but I guess I missed it. In my feeble defense, it's hard to confirm a feature is missing T_T;;
    - BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
      I'm actually really glad you wrote that comment because I've been writing my blog in markdown for years and I had no idea you could collapse headings