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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
@publicvoit@graz.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jarango/116047121332640221

Reminds me of "Dominik's tenth rule: Any sufficiently complicated #PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of #Orgmode."

Today they're adding a CLI.

Next a REPL.

In a couple of years maybe a decent programming language.

If you want all the fun just now without the lock in effects of #Obsidian, take a look at the cool features of https://karl-voit.at/orgmode/ 😉

#Emacs #publicvoit

Organize Your Life With Org-Mode

Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango
@jarango@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Whoa, Obsidian CLI! The help page hints at lots of fascinating possibilities (especially via LLM integrations.) 🤯
https://help.obsidian.md/cli

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Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango
@jarango@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@publicvoit I share your concerns about lock-in. They’ve added features like bases and transclusion, which only work in Obsidian. But it’s still all just plain text under the hood — on your computer. And the core Markdown files work everywhere. It’s a much more open platform than (say) OneNote or Notion. (Still, not as open as Emacs.)

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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
@publicvoit@graz.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

@jarango Everything true.

However, I disagree with #Markdown: https://www.karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/

It's way more open than, let's say, #OneNote & so forth. Unfortunately, it's far from being a #textformat that can be reused anywhere without problems. At least I need to convert MD all the time from one flavor to a different.

With more and more #Obsidian add-ons introducing their own syntax elements, you will end up with clear text files you still can't convert for a different tool without modifications. Good luck with finding out which elements are going to survive and which not. For a few files, that seems OK. If you have a decent #PKM like you describe in your awesome #DulyNoted book, it requires more effort.

For everything I need to use with #MD, I keep a syntax file with one example element so that I keep an overview & know what to convert how in case I need to reuse information stored in this MD flavor.

With org, I just push it through #pandoc & I'm done. 🤷

#publicvoit #LML #Zettelkasten

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Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead

Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
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kepano
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@kepano@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@publicvoit @jarango FWIW there's pandoc support for converting Obsidian Markdown to other formats. I added it a while ago but it hasn't been merged yet:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11135

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@kepano@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@publicvoit @jarango FWIW there's a pandoc support for converting Obsidian Markdown to other formats. I added it a while ago but it hasn't been merged yet:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11135

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