Comment by adityaathalye

Org mode's capabilities are the reason why I don't want markdown for me.

Markdown's popularity is the reason why I switch to it for other people (team / colleagues).

LaTeX is too much for day to day use. Its purpose is precision typesetting. That is a lot of work with LaTeX. I don't need to do precision typesetting on a day-to-day basis. But I've used it to format documents for people when they ask me to. Then it's worth the pain. Besides, LaTeX has none of the organisational capabilities enabled by orgmode, for my daily-drive uses.

There is a reason a Physicist---who daily-drives LaTeX, for their publishing work---went through all the trouble to build a note taking system from scratch.

So, once again, utility is contextual, and I refer back to Master Foo's lesson every time I have a problem.

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