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All problems are solved once you embrace org-mode.

All you need is Emacs! Nothing more!

One big thing I still miss with org-mode are explicit section endings. Just as with markdown you only have headings, the end of a section is implicit. This often leads to text getting swallowed up by the last chapter and makes any kind of restructuring fragile. HTML's <section> makes things much easier.

Having explicit header levels (similar to HTML's <h[0-6]>) is another annoyance, as that makes inclusion of one org document into another problematic and requires restructuring (somewhat workaroundable with "#+begin_src org").

> as that makes inclusion of one org document into another problematic and requires restructuring (somewhat workaroundable with "#+begin_src org").

Outside of Emacs, yes. Within Emacs, there's a keybinding to paste a tree and have it fit.

Objectively false. Please stop spreading misinformation.

I can think of a lot of potentially false things in the statement. The biggest falsehood likely is the perception that one needs Emacs. :-)

You kind of do need Emacs though, as far as I know it is the only existing fully compatible implementation. As soon as the file is outside that environment, all bets are off. I tried using org-mode instead of Markdown once, not for long.

In that case you can't write markdown without Obsidian.

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