Why Org Mode Isn't For Me

[music] So, I made a video a little while ago talking about how I take notes with Emacs. Now, I'm a big note taker. I don't think anybody who has watched this channel is all that surprised by that, but I take notes with Emacs. Now, it's one of the things that I do. It's very, very cool. If you're interested in that process, you can go up and watch the video that I link above here somewhere. It's just really, really good. I at least I think so. and it works very well for me. But one of the most frequent comments I got on that video was, "Why don't I use org mode? Why do you use markdown instead of org mode? Why are you doing it this way and not that way? Why not or mode?" Well, I decided I'm going to make a video about why not or mode. Well, I think it's actually going to be fairly for short video unless I ramble on for a long time, but the reason is actually fairly simple. I don't want to. There you go. Thanks for your support. I'm done for the day. Maybe I should pound about that just a little bit, but that's really the reason why it doesn't make sense to me to use org mode because it just doesn't and I don't want to. Now, I'm sure that there are many good reasons to use org mode and there are really cool things that you can do with or mode. I'm not disparaging or mode or the people who use it, but for me personally, it makes no sense for me to write something in org mode and then convert it to markdown. It just doesn't. Why would I? It be it'd be like needing to write a program in Python but writing it in C instead then converting it somehow to Python and then having to do all this nonsense. It just doesn't make any sense. I need my notes to be in markdown. That's what I need them to be in. I I don't need them to be in any other language or any other syntax. I need markdown. Why would I then put it in or mode only to have to convert it to markdown? It it's just adding an unnecessary step. It's not as if or mode is significantly easier to write than markdown. I'd say they're probably about the same in terms of syntax. Not same in terms of syntax, but more same in terms of difficulty of syntax. Neither one of them are all that hard. At least I don't think so. From the little bit I've seen of org mode, it looks fairly simple. Markdown is also fairly simple. It just makes no sense to me to put it in or mode and then convert it to to markdown so I can move it around to other places that support only markdown. Nothing else supports or mode. Only Emacs does. It'd be like taking everything and putting it in in a silo somewhere where I had to get a key in order to get it out. It makes no sense to me. So, for those of you who were very curious and most of the vast majority of you were very kind about it and asked me why I don't use org mode, that's the reason why it doesn't make any sense to me because I need it in markdown and that's what I write it in. So, this may actually be my shortest video ever, but there's no reason to carry on about it. There's a reason why I don't use org mode. It's because I need everything in markdown. I write everything in markdown. I don't need the the third party stuff. It just works this way. So there you go. If you have any comments on this, you can leave those in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me on Mastadon Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com/inxcast. If you do so, you'll get a weekly exclusive podcast that I'll put out. Just basically me sitting in front of microphone for about 10 minutes just rambling on about whatever I feel like. If that's something that interests you, patreon.com/linixcast. You can also head on over to the store where you can find cool hats like this one. That's shop.linixcast. at the lincast.org. I have other merchant stuff there, too. All of it's really good. All the proceeds for that go directly towards helping me make more Linux content for you guys. So, thank you so very much for those of you who have checked that out. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube. You guys are all absolutely amazing. Without you, the channel just would not be anywhere near where it is right now. So, thank you so very, very much for your support. You guys are amazing. Thank you so very, very much. Thanks everybody for watching. I hope you have a wonderful day. I'll see you next time.

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