Markdown with superpowers: a modern typesetting system.

Letting ideas flow into your next presentation, paper or book.

Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.

  • Desyn0xox@lemmy.ml
    12·
    26 days ago

    Thanks for sharing, looks really cool! Especially with how prevalent markdown is.

    Hopefully this isn’t too off topic/thread derailing:
    As a longtime LaTeX enjoyer, lately I’ve become increasingly infatuated by Typst. With Excalidraw quickly winning my favour as well …
    However I find myself daydreaming of some of Obsidian’s powerfull features for knowledge graphing/“second brain”-ing, but given various reasons, never successfully convinced myself to use it. (Primarily: markdown seemingly a bit too simplistic for my preference, and Obsidian, to my knowledge, not being open source(?))
    Instead I’ve tried some alternatives, each with excellent ideas, unfortunately none really hitting home with my wierd brain. e.g. Zim, LogSeq, SiYuan, ...

    As such I’m curious to hear about others’ setup, and thoughts. - Is Some(Quarkdown + Obsidian) perhaps what I’ve truly been longing for for?

    • AntY@lemmy.world
      8·
      26 days ago

      Have you tried org-mode in emacs? It’s got everything and more! You have zettelkast-style note taking, journal, agenda, spreadsheets and a bunch of other stuff. And everything is saved in text files.

      Emacs really is a great operating system!

      • Desyn0xox@lemmy.ml
        1·
        24 days ago

        Perhaps it is time I delved into the world of Emacs. I’ll check org-mode out, thanks :)

    • baod_rate@programming.dev
      6·
      26 days ago

      FWIW, I was hesitant about obsidian for the same reasons. I would’ve preferred an open source editor and a syntax like asciidoc. But the fact that everything is markdown and it being such a common standard does make obsidian being closed source more palatable[1]. And tbh, for note-taking/“second brain” purposes, a relatively constrained format like markdown is pretty suitable. I wouldn’t want it for technical writing but it serves the purpose for quick and dirty tasks like quickly jotting down notes[2]. And any other markdown language wouldn’t have the same amount of tooling (e.g. org-mode is underspecified and essentially emacs-only unless you see stick to a specific subset of features)

      1. see the creator’s blog post: “File Over App” ↩︎

      2. in an ideal world a more sane/context-free syntax like Djot would have been nice ↩︎

    • lgo@feddit.nl
      2·
      26 days ago

      Did you try Silverbullet? I tried a lot of the stuff you mentioned, but aside from the poor documentation, this hits the sweet spot between power use and carefree for me.