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Obsidian is the new markdown
Let me guess, it burns more tokens so makes them more money
How to burn twice the tokens and fill context twice as fast
Markup is the new markdown.
If you want fancy/complex presentation/interaction, use HTML. If you want text, use Markdown.
Markdown has a VERY specific purpose compared to HTML. Its strength is in the easy readability of the whole text while you are writing it and minimal syntax, not fancy hypertext features. I am a front end dev, and even I would not use HTML for this purpose.
HTML needs much more tokens
Stop sleeping on Obsidian
The richer HTML gets, the harder it becomes to read it raw. If then we start using LLMs for taking notes, we are getting closer on losing the skill of writting. Not to mention how token inefficient HTML is.. Not sure im buying this
Discovering HTML and CSS from first principles...
Markdown can literally do half this stuff already. You just need to have a markdown reader to view it, which pretty much any IDE can do natively now. If you need separate data visualization just make a separate HTML file.
Obsidian supports HTML too, so Obsidian is replacement for Obsidian!
Soon - "Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of XML". For Z-Gen - we had this structured language to express domain specific data.
This is just bait to make Claude burn more tokens. It’s already eating them like they’re free. There’s a bit of truth in it, but it’s dressed up: if token usage doesn’t matter, then yes, HTML is simpler and the better option.
soon enough we’ll be using vite and react to package our html that’s read by Claude to build our todo apps
but it's so comfy..what will I sleep on now? :(
After reviving the terminal, and storing everything in plain text documents again, and now rediscovering the elegance of static HTML, how about we relaunch GeoCities as knowledge bases next?
Half the examples from Thariq were harder to read in html than just markdown, its visually busy and most of it is just text and diagram which could already be achieved in markdown with some ascii. The other half which genuinely looked useful is stuff that you wouldn't do with markdown anyway. Don't know why it was framed as md vs html, should be md + html.
LateX is the old markdown
Markdown was designed to be human readable and easily adjusted. HTML is not human readable, nor is it easily adjusted.