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*In a team meeting*

Me: *happily jotting down notes in markdown*

Other guy: "Dude what are you doing? Pay attention."
Me: "Umm... I'm taking notes?"
Other guy: "But why does your MS Word have black background?"
Me (a bit lost): "Umm... That's not Word. That's my text editor."
Other guy: "Alright... But how do you convert your notes into Word then?"
Me: "... I don't."
Other guy: *stares at me*
Me: * stare back*

It was a nice conversation.

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  • 130
    pandoc -o out.docx -f markdown -t docx doc.md

    If anyone was wondering
  • 18
    @irene A zipped bunch of xml files indeed
  • 22
    Why was he telling you to pay attention and then having a side conversation about your note taking process?

    Sounds like he's very easily distracted. Better send him a copy of the notes with a .md extension. Don't PDF it---where's the fun in that?
  • 17
    Why do people always think Word is the only program capable of being used as a text document :/
  • 1
    Markdown is awesome!
  • 3
    Other guy just needs a coloring book and some pencils, problem solved 🤷‍♂️
  • 1
    Literally had the exact same conversation with people on my FRC team. Then they all came back to me asking questions they forgot from the meeting later
  • 2
    Never let them see you Vim.
  • 1
    Word is how I send images to people. Why would I use it to take notes? 🤷🏼‍♂️
  • 1
    Only the good ones will understand our Markdown love ❤️
  • 0
    I've seen people coding in MS Word!
    I mean.. Why.. Why!?!
  • 0
    @shreyansjain33 lol someone really do that?
  • 0
    "How do you convert them into Word" is a perfect question, because the conversion is precisely the part you deleted. My condolences to everyone in that meeting. If you ever do need the notes somewhere the Word people can reach, obsidotion syncs an Obsidian vault to Notion and back two-way — still plain markdown on your disk, just with a colleague-readable mirror.
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