Hi there I write a lot of Markdown notes. At the moment I use Melpa’s markdown-mode, but I am considering switching to Org mode. But I’m not sure whether Org mode supports this. In the manual I found an option to *export* to Markdown, but I planning to *write* the notes directly as Markdown. Is this possible with Org mode? Many thanks!
Hi Leo, leo writes: > Hi there > > I write a lot of Markdown notes. At the moment I use Melpa’s markdown-mode, but I am considering switching to Org mode. > > But I’m not sure whether Org mode supports this. In the manual I found an option to *export* to Markdown, but I planning to *write* the notes directly as Markdown. > > Is this possible with Org mode? > > Many thanks! > I do not know the characteristics or the contexts of your workflow, but seen the case from the outside, from what you comment I would say that it would not have a lot of sense for you to write your Org docs in Markdown, since Org is also a lightweight markup language, but much more powerful than Markdown. Org mode is intended to write in Org syntax. I started writing my notes in Markdown, and when I migrated to Org, I converted all my old Markdown notes to Org via pandoc. Anyway, inside an Org document you can write Markdown using a source block: #+begin_src markdown your text in markdown... #+end_src If you do C-c ' inside the block, you can edit it in another buffer with the markdown mode activated[1]. You can also generate a * .md file from that block (see https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html): #+begin_src markdown :tangle my-file.md your text in markdown... #+end_src Best regards, Juan Manuel
Gi Juan
On 12 Jun 2021, at 22:35, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
> leo writes:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I write a lot of Markdown notes. At the moment I use Melpa’s markdown-mode, but I am considering switching to Org mode.
>>
>> But I’m not sure whether Org mode supports this. In the manual I found an option to *export* to Markdown, but I planning to *write* the notes directly as Markdown.
>>
>> Is this possible with Org mode?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>
> I do not know the characteristics or the contexts of your workflow, but
> seen the case from the outside, from what you comment I would say that
> it would not have a lot of sense for you to write your Org docs in
> Markdown, since Org is also a lightweight markup language, but much more
> powerful than Markdown. Org mode is intended to write in Org syntax.
>
> I started writing my notes in Markdown, and when I migrated to Org, I
> converted all my old Markdown notes to Org via pandoc.
>
> Anyway, inside an Org document you can write Markdown using a source
> block:
>
> #+begin_src markdown
> your text in markdown...
> #+end_src
>
> If you do C-c ' inside the block, you can edit it in another buffer with
> the markdown mode activated[1].
>
> You can also generate a * .md file from that block (see
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html):
>
> #+begin_src markdown :tangle my-file.md
> your text in markdown...
> #+end_src
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
Good to know. I’m not too keen to learn yet another text markup language, but I might give org mode a try…
Leo
Hi Leo, leo writes: > Good to know. I’m not too keen to learn yet another text markup language, but I might give org mode a try… It's worth a try! Org markup language is very similar to Markdown. My advice is that you take from Org only what you need, because Org has so many features that at first it can saturate you. A Recommended initial reading may be the compact guide, which gives you a pretty global vision without going too deep in each aspect: https://orgmode.org/guide/ Best regards, Juan Manuel