<story><title>Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy</title><url>https://laverna.cc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>org-mode&amp;#x27;s format sucks, is only partially supported outside of Emacs, and is on its way out. org-mode is only any good if you&amp;#x27;re using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into a system that&amp;#x27;s soon going away.</text></item><item><author>bitexploder</author><text>Org mode in a git repo. Easy enough. Don&amp;#x27;t need a fussy rendering step. Generate a PDF or HTML from org. Regardless of how you do it -- plain text will endure and using git makes it really simple. Markdown can never &amp;quot;go away&amp;quot; and neither can org files. They are inherently readable with cat and the naked eye. If I can&amp;#x27;t legibly read it with cat &amp;#x2F; less it will eventually leave me disappointed in some way.</text></item><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it&amp;#x27;s open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.&lt;p&gt;When you write things down, you&amp;#x27;re investing in your future. It&amp;#x27;s silly to use software that isn&amp;#x27;t making that same investment.&lt;p&gt;After trying Evernote, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there&amp;#x27;s a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn&amp;#x27;t going away anytime soon.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I&amp;#x27;m surprised more people don&amp;#x27;t do the same.&lt;p&gt;Edit: here&amp;#x27;s what my system looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;nGplj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;nGplj&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaushalmodi</author><text>&amp;gt; Emacs, and is on its way out&lt;p&gt;Being active on the Emacs and Org mode mailing lists, and other forums, I can say with confidence that this is not true.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I am seeing active development in both Emacs and Org; not just bug fixes, but frequent additions of new features.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; org-mode is only any good if you&amp;#x27;re using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into&lt;p&gt;Org markup is much more powerful than Markdown. So you can be much more productive by using Org just as markup. One example is &amp;#x27;#+INCLUDE: &amp;quot;foo.py&amp;quot; :lines-5-10&amp;#x27;.. This is tremendously useful if you are writing notes that export to some format or blogging.. you don&amp;#x27;t need to copy-paste code snippets, Org will fetch them for you. (I have a customization built on top of that.. instead of specifying the line numbers, I can specify the start and end regexp for the lines containing my snippet). Add org-babel to this mix, and you don&amp;#x27;t even need to run the snippets, and copy the results manually; again Org does it.&lt;p&gt;I recently blogged about comparing string related functions between Python and Nim: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scripter.co&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;string-functions-nim-vs-python&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scripter.co&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;string-functions-nim-vs-python&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I cannot imagine myself writing (and maintaining) that post in Markdown!&lt;p&gt;On the next update of Nim version, I&amp;#x27;ll simply run org-babel over the whole file, see git diff to check if anything major has changed, and update the post accordingly.. no copy&amp;#x2F;pasting ever :)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; a system that&amp;#x27;s soon going away.&lt;p&gt;Again, really? What made you think that?</text></comment>
<story><title>Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy</title><url>https://laverna.cc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>org-mode&amp;#x27;s format sucks, is only partially supported outside of Emacs, and is on its way out. org-mode is only any good if you&amp;#x27;re using the full power of it (tasks, agenda, etc), which is buying into a system that&amp;#x27;s soon going away.</text></item><item><author>bitexploder</author><text>Org mode in a git repo. Easy enough. Don&amp;#x27;t need a fussy rendering step. Generate a PDF or HTML from org. Regardless of how you do it -- plain text will endure and using git makes it really simple. Markdown can never &amp;quot;go away&amp;quot; and neither can org files. They are inherently readable with cat and the naked eye. If I can&amp;#x27;t legibly read it with cat &amp;#x2F; less it will eventually leave me disappointed in some way.</text></item><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it&amp;#x27;s open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.&lt;p&gt;When you write things down, you&amp;#x27;re investing in your future. It&amp;#x27;s silly to use software that isn&amp;#x27;t making that same investment.&lt;p&gt;After trying Evernote, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there&amp;#x27;s a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn&amp;#x27;t going away anytime soon.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I&amp;#x27;m surprised more people don&amp;#x27;t do the same.&lt;p&gt;Edit: here&amp;#x27;s what my system looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;nGplj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;nGplj&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willtim</author><text>Emacs has been with us for well over 30 years and during that time has always had folks claim it was obsolete (no graphical UI, no OOP etc). Emacs will be around for at least another 30 years.</text></comment>