Karl Voit  Feb 10

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

Show threadDrea
@publicvoit How is a folder full of plain-text files locked in? I can take my folder of notes that I use in Obsidian and access them on any Markdown app or plaintext editor.
Feb 11 at 12:08amMona for iPhone
Show threadKarl Voit  Feb 11
@andricheli Please take a look at https://graz.social/@publicvoit/116050940232581972
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] 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

graz.social
Show threadDreaFeb 11
@publicvoit This is definitely true if you go heavy with the plugins and it’s one reason I’m very judicious about the plugins I use. Other than a few edge cases where I went wild or did something dumb, my MD files have withstood more than a decade across 5 or 6 different apps (some that I actually used, a couple that I just tested out with my files). I think it is important to remain cautious about plugin use and understand how the plugin will fundamentally alter your files. I avoid those.