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I sort of bounce off of org over and over because I find it very unreadable. Compared to Markdown (I know Markdown isn't quite the same thing), org feels very crusty and noisy.

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This totally depends on how you set up your org face attributes. I keep using Org because, for me, it's far more readable than Markdown.

Also, it's always a tree. The three operations, like folding, traversal,. etc, are essential for me, and not available in Markdown.

Fortunately, GitHub understands README.org files.

Emacs folds and unfolds Markdown just like Org since about 29.0 at least I think.

How does it save the state?

Ask Jason Blevins:

https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

The answer, as provided by Gemini based on this article, is: It doesn’t. And that disqualifies it from real world use to me, sadly.

I see, thanks. I reset Org mode state as well on file open, so I never noticed (it never bothered me) that Markdown state is not stored.

Have a peaceful Sabbath.

While org mode can do almost anything, it is foremost an outliner, not a markup language like markdown. Using org-mode in place of Markdown is like using MS Word for coding, so no wonder

I think you are right. My real issue is that I don't have an "outliner" brain. I've never really understood why people make outlines or even, really, take notes.

Org's utility to me is then the making and keeping track of todos. But markdown can do that without much trouble.

I actually pandoced my Markdown files to Org mode a few years ago because Org mode is easier to read in plain text editors. I especially like the use of dashes for lists. However, even in Emacs Org mode, I still use `backtick` fences in inline code.

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