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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« on: March 14, 2022, 08:38 PM »
I very much agree with the sentiment behind a recent comment on a a post on the Workflowy Blog
In the end, if you need to be productive, comfort and workflow is everything.
Also made me reflect on why markdown is a very poor match for me.
Simple tables are possible, but it's not very good at them.
So we have variants. And most markdown editors go further adding extensions and scattering html in the file (underline being the most common). So if markdown is a bad fit, why not the more widely understood docx (which for me was always a txt/docx combo)
The most recent version of Obsidian (0.14 insiders only atm) effectively sherlocks the admonitions plugin. The admonitions/callouts are simple to write and potentially useful. They're not exactly incompatible with other markdown editors, but they don't work in them either.
I would always vote for full LaTeX, markdown is very simple, but of course very limited ...
the majority do prefer clean simple formatting and WYSIWYG. Also, most people, including myself, abandon software even if it is functional, when it is not pleasing the eyes, you must "like" to work with it, otherwise you will not be productive.
So while I always like more formatting options ..., I am more inclined towards the concepts of block editors (like Notion, Nimbus, Craft ... and all the clones)
In the end, if you need to be productive, comfort and workflow is everything.
Also made me reflect on why markdown is a very poor match for me.
- For the vast majority of the time I use no formatting or markup at all. Just paragraph and line breaks.
- Since moving back to working in single large documents, I use headings - but once I pass h3 I find counting #s irritating; even html is better.
- For the final document, I need underline and italics, rarely bold.
- When reviewing, I also need colour (text and highlight) and strikethrough.
- When publishing, I often need to control pagination.
Simple tables are possible, but it's not very good at them.
So we have variants. And most markdown editors go further adding extensions and scattering html in the file (underline being the most common). So if markdown is a bad fit, why not the more widely understood docx (which for me was always a txt/docx combo)
The most recent version of Obsidian (0.14 insiders only atm) effectively sherlocks the admonitions plugin. The admonitions/callouts are simple to write and potentially useful. They're not exactly incompatible with other markdown editors, but they don't work in them either.