[barankilic]

Isn't org-mode tied to emacs? Also, does it have a specification? I searched for a specification and found this (https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html) and couldn't understand whether it is a proper spec. Without a well-defined spec, it becomes very hard to create tooling around it. For example, Markdown was using Perl scripts initially and didn't have a spec for some time.

[vmsp]

There's at least a parser using that as a spec at https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser

[tconfrey]

also this one: https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs

[MichaelDickens]

org-mode does not have a spec. Its Emacs implementation is the canonical implementation. But org-mode is still just plaintext, and you can read org-mode files using any plaintext editor.

[afarviral]

Yeah but its difficult to look at and read as purely plain text, unlike markdown. And since the power-features of org arent available in your editor(s) (unless you use Emacs) it isn't tenable. I'm convinced Emacs users are blind to this given the seemless rendering done by Emacs. There's room for a new spec.

[xenodium]

You can get quite far with it. I’ve used https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html when implementing lots of https://plainorg.com and https://flathabits.com.

[shagmin]

Last time I checked, there was an extension for org-mode in Visual Studio Code, but it felt a bit more like a glorified WSIWYG markdown editor with a few extra features - just a tiny, tiny fraction of org-mode's potential. But that tiny fraction alone covers a wide variety of use cases.

[xvilka]

There are implementations for other editors, for example NeoVim[1].

[1] https://github.com/nvim-orgmode/orgmode