You can still do that with Org files. I would say that grep touches my Org files more often than Emacs does. I had the same workflow with Markdown files if you

You can still do that with Org files. I would say that grep touches my Org files more often than Emacs does. I had the same workflow with Markdown files if you prefer the closed source Markdown editors. At the time, I was using VIM for editing and viewing the Markdown files.