But for the life of me, there are so many things I hate about Markdown:
- Alternative syntax for _italic_ *italic* and __bold__ **bold** (why?)
- versus using /italic/ and *bold*. It just feels so right
- You need to use HTML tags <u>to underline</u>, or <s>strikethrough</s>, or just about anything in Markdown (including line breaks! You need to use the <br> tag)
- +strikethrough+ is alright, but _underline_ just makes sense
- Lack of a unified Markdown standard:
- Diminishes portability (e.g. varying approaches for file meta tags like in Obsidian)
- Causes different renderings of the same document (e.g. Obsidian vs GitHub)
- There was a serious standardization effort in 'Standard Markdown', only for the original creator to be a knob about it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/
It's a shame too because despite Orgmode being superior to Markdown in just about every way, its adoption is nowhere near as close (editing is hard on iOS, and needing Emacs is a barrier for the general public).
I also like [Markdown's text first](https://hyperlink.com) then link format much more than [[https://hyperlink.com][Orgmode's link first then text]].
But for the life of me, there are so many things I hate about Markdown:
It's a shame too because despite Orgmode being superior to Markdown in just about every way, its adoption is nowhere near as close (editing is hard on iOS, and needing Emacs is a barrier for the general public).Markdown isn't going away anytime soon.