I found it really funny when the “second brain / knowledge base” apps (like Obidian, Joplin, Logseq) started to explode semi-recently. “Organize your thoughts! Tag everything! Elegance through simplicity! Only use markdown!”
Yeah, I get it, orgmode is a really good idea. No need to re-invent it half a dozen more times to celebrate it’s 20th birthday…
I found it really funny when the “second brain / knowledge base” apps (like Obidian, Joplin, Logseq) started to explode semi-recently. “Organize your thoughts! Tag everything! Elegance through simplicity! Only use markdown!”
Yeah, I get it, orgmode is a really good idea. No need to re-invent it half a dozen more times to celebrate it’s 20th birthday…
And one of these days, someone will rediscover the magic of having a uniform editing environment for manipulating text in multiple different contexts.
“Elegance through simplicity.” Emacs is not even remotely simple.