Comment by dietr1ch
1 day ago
What's cool about Org isn't the symbols, but the semantics of a tree with tags, TODOs (along agenda & scheduling), and code blocks.
Org had the problem that a single implementation gained too many features and went underspecified, making the language unusable outside of emacs. Markdown has the reverse problem, lots of implementations with variance that leave you with the lowest common denominator (there's specs, but IMO having many specs is pretty much having no spec, just many implemenattions)
It'd be cool to see a language that standardised Org features, but tried hard to keep things readable/compatible with markdown.
Good outline of capabilities; one of the few in the comments! The tree with tags part is super interesting. I'm using beads more and having short codes for tickets is something I want my mark up to be better at, want to integrate.
I thought maybe neorg would be a counter-example, of something compatible. But it is its own format. Which has a specification repo! https://github.com/nvim-neorg/norg-specs/blob/main/1.0-speci...