Orgzly-android: Optional markdown

[AeliusSaionji]

New to orgmode and this app. Looking to evaluate if I can use this, a pretty glaring issue is the syntax. This is apparently unique to orgmode? I have never seen it before in my travels.

I'm not really interested in learning random syntax specifically for an android orgmode client. Optional markdown support would be appreciated.

Thanks

[milisims]

orgmode is pretty explicitly designed with this syntax, the value of this app (to me, not to speak for others) is that it saves files in the orgmode format so it can be synced and used with orgmode elsewhere.

I would imagine there are better solutions to what you're looking for if you want markdown syntax.

[ScottFreeCode]

For what it's worth most of Orgzy's features would be non-standard extensions/conventions to Markdown, whereas they are all* compatible with the canonical Org Mode, which (as an Emacs library) has been available on every major OS since a year before Markdown was invented and half a decade before Android, GitHub or Stack Exchange came out. (The basic syntax is a decade or two older than that, and is… more or less equivalent to Markdown except that stars are headlines instead of hashes.)

Org format is also supported by GitHub, by plugins for most IDEs, and by several other apps like Orgzly. Quality of implementation varies and not all of these bother with the various task and calendar features, but it's widely available even if it isn't as popular as Markdown.

Having had the same reaction at first but being won over gradually by the feature set (and Emacs's programmability), I think a lot of the ugliness of Org format comes from usage rather than the syntax. If you try writing Markdown where most of your info is in either headlines or bullet lists and TODO keywords are added to those, that looks pretty ugly too. On the other hand if you use Org as markup for something other than a todo list, the way you would normally use Markdown with headlines breaking up sections of plain blocks of text, org files look mostly normal.

*Technically Orgzly uses its own search syntax instead of the Org Mode search syntax, but this isn't saved in the files (and the features are still roughly comparable).