Gi Juan On 12 Jun 2021, at 22:35, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> Hi Leo, > > leo writes: > >> Hi there >> >> I write a lot of Markdown notes. At the moment I use Melpa’s markdown-mode, >> but I am considering switching to Org mode. >> >> But I’m not sure whether Org mode supports this. In the manual I found an >> option to *export* to Markdown, but I planning to *write* the notes directly >> as Markdown. >> >> Is this possible with Org mode? >> >> Many thanks! >> > > I do not know the characteristics or the contexts of your workflow, but > seen the case from the outside, from what you comment I would say that > it would not have a lot of sense for you to write your Org docs in > Markdown, since Org is also a lightweight markup language, but much more > powerful than Markdown. Org mode is intended to write in Org syntax. > > I started writing my notes in Markdown, and when I migrated to Org, I > converted all my old Markdown notes to Org via pandoc. > > Anyway, inside an Org document you can write Markdown using a source > block: > > #+begin_src markdown > your text in markdown... > #+end_src > > If you do C-c ' inside the block, you can edit it in another buffer with > the markdown mode activated[1]. > > You can also generate a * .md file from that block (see > https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html): > > #+begin_src markdown :tangle my-file.md > your text in markdown... > #+end_src > > Best regards, > > Juan Manuel Good to know. I’m not too keen to learn yet another text markup language, but I might give org mode a try… Leo
