[vijucat]

Unpopular opinion: developers obsess about the format being Markdown. This is completely backwards. This is a hammer-sees-nail thing. You should care more about the UX. And that somewhere, someone wrote a parser for the file format. That's it. You don't have to understand every byte of it. It need not be readable text and it need not be version-control friendly. It should be a joy to use, be powerful, be easy to annotate images and pdfs. I bet none of the Markdown solutions do this as elegantly as OneNote or alternatives.

[simonw]

The more time passes the more I care about my notes living in Markdown:

- I can transform it to other formats should I need to

- The GitHub variant of it (GFM) has feature like syntax highlighting for different languages which is incredibly useful to me based on the kinds of notes I take

- Diffing clearly genuinely is a benefit, sometimes I want to know exactly what I changed!

- I can parse it with regular expressions, so useful information doesn't end up locked in some weird binary format

- LLMs are great at reading and writing it

These things may not matter to people who are not nerds. I'm a nerd!

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Indeed, Markdown has become a self fulfilling prophecy of sorts: You want to use it because the toolchain and ecosystem surrounding the format is good, and the toolchain and ecosystem are good because everyone is using it.

[0xbadcafebee]

sir, this is HN, nobody wants to hear your rational practical ideas