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by DocTomoe 412 days ago
My question was honest:

What urtext - to someone who moved from org-mode to Obsidian - seems to do is

* chain you to a proprietary text editor that does some python interpreting. I wonder which use cases would want me to have my document change itself (or even change its own changing logic).

* highlights 'features' that really do not live in the document itself but rather in the editor's logic (like timestamp handling)

* introduces a complex structure to express 'nodes', which appear to be essentially text anchors.

But anything else, the editing, the easy-UI-free syntax, markdown has done ten years ago.

So it is not a text format, because it lives in a very specific editor. It is not a fully-fledged software package either. It sounds a lot like some sort of macro language which woke up one day and decided to rather be a text repository.

If you (speaking of a general you, not you specifically) wanted to convince people to make the switch, a list of barely described features is insufficient. You need to sell a solution, not a product.