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Why not markdown? What does urtext bring to the table markdown doesn't?
by DocTomoe 1y ago
Why not markdown? What does urtext bring to the table markdown doesn't?
- coldtea 1y agoAll the things shown in the intro page
- DocTomoe 1y agoMy question was honest: What urtext - to someone who moved from org-mode to Obsidian - seems to do is * chain you to a proprietary text editor that does some python interpreting. I wonder which use cases would want me to have my document change itself (or even change its own changing logic). * highlights 'features' that really do not live in the document itself but rather in the editor's logic (like timestamp handling) * introduces a complex structure to express 'nodes', which appear to be essentially text anchors. But anything else, the editing, the easy-UI-free syntax, markdown has done ten years ago. So it is not a text format, because it lives in a very specific editor. It is not a fully-fledged software package either. It sounds a lot like some sort of macro language which woke up one day and decided to rather be a text repository. If you (speaking of a general you, not you specifically) wanted to convince people to make the switch, a list of barely described features is insufficient. You need to sell a solution, not a product.
- Grimblewald 1y agoYour answer contributes nothing, which is just shy of what the intro pages offers in relation the question. Everything urtext claims, is readily achievable through markdown + some collection of tools of your choice, for which many exist, some being all in one solutions. Obsidian with a few community plugins is a clear example. I enjoy and appreciate projects like this, I _WANT_ to like and understand it, but as it stands the information simply isn't there.