Comment by hoosieree
3 years ago
Org-mode has many backends for exporting, including plain text and html, so if you open the exported document in a browser you can Ctrl+F to search and the browser at least ignores most markup. But I agree, this is an inconvenience common to all markup systems.
In practice, I find org-mode to be much less "noisy" than latex or html for example, and about the same as markdown, so it's still a net win for me.
That's what I sometimes resort to, though copy&paste the text back to the editor as search in a browser is much worse