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I feel obligated to mention Logseq https://logseq.com/ as well as Zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/ which are both markdown editors with knowledge base and management. Incidentally, I do all of this in Emacs.

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Yes, I'll add WikiLens [1] and Dendron [2] as VSCode extensions if you want to reuse an existing editor, or other apps like Bear [3] and Roam [4].

1. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lostinta... 2. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dendron.... 3. https://bear.app/ 4. https://roamresearch.com/

Here's the thing: I really like Loqseq's interface (it mimic's Andy Matuschak's Evergreen notes[0]) but I really hate the fact that it doesn't let me edit plain Markdown files and write free-form text. (Looks like I'm not the only one[1].) It forces me into this weird outliner format that I personally don't like at all – and I'm saying this as someone who used org-mode for years.

[0]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

[1]: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/allow-non-outline-freeform-text... , https://discuss.logseq.com/t/how-about-separately-supporting...

Hmm, OTOH the _only_ reason I like LogSeq is because of the outliner format.

I think there are a lot of different styles out there which manifest in how different people end up using these tools.

I ended up moving from Obsidian to Logseq basically just to get "native outline format", and LogSeq is in that sense an "offline, open-format version of Roam".

I'll have to look into all of these. Here's what I really want: A note taking app that lets me insert code cells, a la Jupyter. I'm using colaboratory right now but I'd like to explore alternatives.

I've gotten to the point where I practically can't use an editor that doesn't let me run code, because that's become my second brain.

I do that with org-mode https://orgmode.org/ it's integrated with Emacs and I can run code in the document as well as export to PDF for presentations for example.

Obsidian actually supports Jupyter via a plugin, if I recall.

It really annoys me that so many of these "markdown" editors use double brackets instead of actual Markdown links.

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