The Art of Plain Text (2015)

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  • logseq

    A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

  • Today, plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience. There are loads of markdown apps on the app stores, but the lesser-known org markup continues to fly under the radar. Quite possibly because of its Emacs origin (and many folks moving to other editors), but org is still plain text (and super powerful). We can all benefit from wider adoption beyond Emacs.

    I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself:

    https://plainorg.com

    https://flathabits.com

    There are other great ones out there:

    https://beorg.app

    https://braintool.org

    https://logseq.com

    https://organice.200ok.ch

    https://orgro.org

    http://orgzly.com

    Shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only

  • linux

    Linux kernel source tree

  • commit time, because that's the only time you know the difference.

    [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611...

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  • orgdown

  • Hey, I did not know about EasyOrg. Well done, looks great!

    Welcome to the non-Emacs org family :) apologies if it was just me not noticing before!

    Consider adding EasyOrg to https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool...

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