...to the point where I became more comfortable writing blog posts using Markdown syntax!
Just take a look at my new workflow, and hopefully, you'll see what I mean:
That is not a word processor in the traditional sense. Look around, and the options for adding hyperlinks and headings are not to be found in the toolbar, because they're already built into the keyboard. Want to begin a new section on the page? Just type # followed by the heading itself, and it's formatted on the fly while preserving the structure its intended to represent! You can even collapse and expand heading just like you can in Microsoft Word. And yes, you can build a hierarchical structure by typing ## for second-level headings, ### for third-level, and so forth. When jotting things down in Markdown, I prefer to use second- and third-level headings to begin with so that I can easily group things together using first-level headings later on.
And yes, the absurd mathematical expression in the middle of the page was something I typed out by hand, using only my keyboard, without selecting fancy symbols like the integral from a toolbar. And the matrix to the left of it was created the same way, using backslashes and ampersands. Obsidian then renders the expression using MathJax, but the actual file itself, stored on my local hard drive in a folder I can find easily is so lightweight, it doesn't take up too much storage space, and it's a cinch to email.
And when I specifically demarcate a block of text to be formatted as code, I can specify a specific programming language, and it magically color-codes everything so I instantly know what's what. That color formatting, again, is just how Obsidian renders it, so none of that is in the actual file itself.
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