plotto-for-obsidian VS markdown-mode

LOL, which is _why_ – after learning about plots and tropes last week here on HN – I had to _naturally_ create "Plotto for Obsidian"[^1]. (It's basically all of Plotto exploded into navigatable markdown files for faster discovery.)

[^1]: https://github.com/akaalias/plotto-for-obsidian

My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.

I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.

Even emacs has a markdown mode:

https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

There is markdown-mode if you really prefer it over org. I use it to read markdown files sent by colleagues. It's very powerful, and very well documented, though honestly I don't use much of it's functionality. I use it mainly for it's ability to hide the markup (much like org) and follow hyperlinks.

As much as I love Emacs with markdown-mode, I agree that ghostwriter is the simplest for most users.

I can't find it here https://leanpub.com/markdown-mode/read#leanpub-auto-lists and here https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

;; This is a workaround to a bug in markdown-mode: ;; See: https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode/issues/377 ;; https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/issues/333#issuecomment-913015564 (defun mpolden/gfm-unescape-string (string) "Remove backslash-escape of punctuation characters in STRING." ;; https://github.github.com/gfm/#backslash-escapes (replace-regexp-in-string "[\\]\([][!\"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@\_`{|}~-]\)" "\1" string))

Emacs makes autosaves by default and supports markdown-mode. Usually though it's nicer to put them in a central location by setting backup-directory-alist instead of the default behavior of putting them in directory you're working in of the original file. I stuff them into a directory ~/.saves with (setq backup-directory-alist(("." . "~/.saves")))`.

markdown-mode by Jason Blevins seems not have this function.

You might wish to install the Markdown Mode package. If don't want to do that for some reason, you can tell Emacs that files with names ending in ".md" should be opened in Text Mode by doing something like

github better: https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode