rufuspollock

Exactly

You're absolutely right ... and this is more for a personal database (the way most people use Notion).

Strictly we could have titled this: the markdown database pattern for small personal databases.

The point was that for personal use e.g. keeping a list of projects, or books etc this is perfect. Or even for maintaining this list on a website.

It isn't for multiple simultaneous writes

Yes it is markdown plus frontmatter that makes this work.

Point on comparison with other formats is really well taken. I think the main argument i would have is ubiquity of markdown and markdown tooling.

Cool Hadn't seen this before and will check it out - and add to the Way of Markdown

I really liked Logseq though i've ended up an Obsidian (and now mostly AI + markdown) user.

Super cool. I've been trying it out for publishing some of my own datasets.

Hi, i'm one of the co-creators. Let me know if you have any questions.

Totally! We're really love plain-text pkm.

We have this overall sense that "markdown is eating the world" in the sense that it is becoming a more and more ubiquitous and powerful format. What i would term "markdown plus" i.e. markdown plus extensions like frontmatter, wikilinks, typed backtick blocks you have something really pretty expressive - and add MDX and you have full JS(X) components.

At least, for reasonably small use cases (think under a 1000 items), this makes a collection of markdown files a great basis for a whole bunch of use cases from a document database to a PKM etc.

I take the point and perhaps one could think about what is useful to the "middle ground" of the uninitiated e.g. the policy-makers looking for some guidance, the journalists trying to make sense of the claims and counter-claims.

What we're trying to do here is set out the claims clearly (and atomically) and evaluate them in as transparent and honest a manner as possible. So far I've not seen this a lot on the internet despite the huge amount of material on this topic.