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<p>Improved navigation, formatting, manipulation, and even formulas in Markdown tables.</p>
<p>I am an avid proponent of maintaining a personal wiki, or personal knowledge
base. This can be as simple as a paper journal, or as complicated as programs
like DEVONthink and ROAM Research. Over the last 10 years I have experimented
with nearly a dozen approaches, but the last few have been fairly minor
tweaks.</p>
<p>To reduce the wiki churn, I realized I needed a method which could be easily
converted into any format in the future, was universally supported, and was
relatively extensible. I tried out <a href="https://orgmode.org/">org-mode</a> for a
while, but even with Evil mode, I didn&rsquo;t enjoy spending time in emacs.</p>
<p>I completed what I hope to be my last wiki migration over the 2020 summer,
switching to Markdown. It&rsquo;s simple, it&rsquo;s used everywhere, and it seems to be
gaining ground in the personal wiki space rapidly. But leaving org-mode did
have some shortfalls. It has amazing utilities for editing tables.</p>
<p>Building off of the excellent library started by
<a href="https://github.com/susisu">susisu</a>, I have been working on adding advanced
features to tables in Markdown. With an editor that has this library
incorporated (often possible though a plugin), Markdown tables become nearly
as powerful as they are in org-mode. Automatic formatting,
adding/moving/removing columns, sorting, and now even some spreadsheet
capabilities are all possible in plain-text Markdown tables.</p>
<p><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tgrosinger/advanced-tables-obsidian/main/resources/screenshots/basic-functionality.gif" alt="Basic functionality"></p>
<p>I hope this enables you to make the jump to a Markdown-based wiki.</p>
<p>I recommend <a href="https://obsidian.md/">Obsidian</a>.</p>
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