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I am grateful for our lively discussion in my workshop on creating & hosting Open Educational Resources. Across institutions and disciplines, we share the same challenges and experiment with similar solutions. There is no one-fits-all workflow or platform, but providing content in an easy-to-convert format like #Markdown is always a good start. Different static site generators and documentation generators allow attractive and usable deployments. Contact me to exchange knowledge! #nosf2025

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@ericsfraga @oantolin Yes, the direct and initial benefits of #Orgdown are mostly for non-Emacs people: karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdow

However, just imagine for a minute, that all #Markdown usage is replaced with Orgdown usage. Let your thoughts wander for a moment.

This would have tremendous impact on the #Emacs people as well when it comes to working with external tools and people.

public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text DocumentsOrgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents
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@oantolin If that would actually be the reason, then the #orgmode community would have changed its name but embraced the idea. Didn't happen.

I personally do find the name helpful because the main target group is not Org users but normal users, who do know what "Markdown" is and they get some idea transfer to "Orgdown" because of "down".

Nobody I've came across ever said that "Markdown" is negative because of "down". 🤷

To me, "down" symbolizes a "simpler version syntax" according to Lightweight Markup Language (LML) in contrast to complex markup languages like HTML, tex, ...

That said: as long as the org community does not even start to embrace the idea, its name choice is more than irrelevant.

I started #orgdown not as a personal project in the sense that it stays this way. I was hoping for the community to take it away from me and follow the basic idea such that OD is becoming a tool-independent and much better alternative to #Markdown as explained on karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdo

public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do InsteadMarkdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead

It would be amazing if all browsers rendered Markdown.

My websites and blogposts would just be Markdown files.

Just ssh/rsync and text files. No more static site generator.

Bliss.

(Yes, I know that Markdown is designed to look okay as-is. To geeks, it just about does. Yes, I could handwrite all the HTML. Yes, I am aware that there are multiple flavours of Markdown.)

At #kompot 🐌 #selfhosting community we set up (a while ago) a few #picoCMS (or similar) websites for local sister communities. By connecting the content folder into #nextcloud we tried improving editing experiance. A few nextcloud releases after there are no more #markdown editors in Nextcloud that would fit our purpose. Mostly we are looking for plain text editor that would not add any styling on its own. We did some research and @g1smo went down the 🐇 🕳️ but did not find anything suitable.

[Denote] La version 4.1.0 du logiciel Denote est disponible depuis le 17 octobre.
Denote permet de créer+traiter un ensemble de fichiers avec un #format de nom qui suit un schéma toujours identique et explicite (date, sujet, mot clé).
Chaque fichier peut contenir des notes, mais aussi des video, images, PDF. Chaque fichier peut être relié à d'autres fichiers, avec rétrolien automatique.
#Denote est intégré à #Emacs & utilise différents #format (#Orgmode, #Markdown, text).
protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-1

Protesilaos Stavrou · Emacs: Denote version 4.1.0Information about the latest version of my Denote package for GNU Emacs.
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I thought I’d share a little update on my continuous use of #logseq as a personal knowledge management tool.

I recently discovered the individual page properties feature which helps organize my notes a little better.

I still like the simplicity of the tool and the fact that all notes are stored in #markdown.

Visual graph, after a year long use, is getting better. Still pretty to look at. Maybe useful too?

Les IA "grands publics" actuelles fonctionnent avec un des modèles de langages (LLM) pour donner leur réponse. On le sait la performance de ces LLM est liée à l'entraînement sur des données antérieures.
Mais alors que faire si on veut interroger l'IA sur des données hors du champ d'entraînement : la solution c'est le RAG (retrieval-augmented generation).
Et si on testait ceci sur des textes de chercheurs en SHS : hnlab.huma-num.fr/blog/2025/10
#shs #humanitesnumeriques #ia #rag #llm #markdown #pdf #csv

HN Lab LogExplorer ses documents de travail avec les méthodes de la Retrieval-Augmented Generation : créer, démonter et mettre en œuvre une application Web complète
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Qui de mieux placé qu'Arthur Perret (site vivement recommandé : arthurperret.fr/), spécialiste de l'organisation des connaissances et de l'édition numérique pour vous présenter Zettlr, le génial éditeur de notes markdown interreliées ?

C'est le 3 décembre à l'URFIST de Lyon et il reste quelque places : sygefor.reseau-urfist.fr/#/tra

arthurperret.fr/Arthur Perret - Enseignant chercheur en sciences de l’information et de la communication
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