@dhrystone
I've not (yet?) tried it.
I (still) am struggling at properly learning to document and track things, with text files.
I've read a bit here and there and also read about Obsidian.
At the beginning I was thinking I didn't want to use it because it's not free software, but then reading and reading more I simply realized my concern was actually on Markdown format itself.
Being a (former, now) developer Markdown was an important part of my coding life: README.md and the like.
@dhrystone
But I was really struggling between the different environments and tools I was using, each one with its frigging Markdown dialect and variants.
In the end, I'm now struggling with something else: I've reopened my younger self dreams drawer and started learning #Emacs and, specifically, its #OrgMode with its unique and stable, immutable markup syntax... and I'm even working at my simple #DigitalGarden with it!
I need more? Yes. But than I colud "simply" learn Emacs and improve it...
@jameshowell@AAMfP@dhrystone
I’ve been testing it the last few months and still prefer #orgmode. I created some kanbans the other day and opened the raw md file. It was useless. Contained a code snippet for a plugin to init. That’s not portable plain text. Plus you already touched on all the flavors of markdown. This (Obsidian) is just an additional layer.
@dhrystone
Org mode is (also) a task manager: visually in not (necessarily) a kanban board but tou can define your workflow (see Multi-state workflow), you have priorities, progress logging, sub-tasks, ... probably the only missing piece is the visualization, as far as I know OrgMode (too few, yet). @greg@jameshowell
@AAMfP@greg@jameshowell No no. Not interested in this time at what else #Orgmode can do or is good for (since we all know which will lose that battle if #Obsidian’s full breadth of features and functionality is brought into that comparison). Since someone commented that the backend representation of Obsidian’s #kanban in an .md file is just a call to a plugin, I’m curious as to precisely, 1:1, how Orgmode shows kanbans and how it represents them in its own .md files. That’s all. This way we can apples-to-apples compare the two apps.
@dhrystone@AAMfP@greg@jameshowell This idea of comparing Obsidian to Emacs and suggesting in any way that Obsidian is more featureful amused me, as an Obsidian fan and Emacs avoider, so I looked into it.
OrgMode uses a syntax similar to Markdown but not always identical.
Table syntax is virtually identical, though OrgMode's is much more powerful - more like a spreadsheet than a table.
El Kanban plugin uses table syntax for a Kanban-ish interface.
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