[Feature] Support of org-mode TODOs within md files

[wakatara]

Quite honestly, having TODOs a la org-mode supported within the md files would make this incredible as you could also use it within your org-agenda etc (as well as being abel to attach notes via C-c z etc) to them.

Is there any major impediment for that working with the markdown files currently?

(I've always admired logseq for making org-mode todos available within markdown-ish documents.)

[nobiot]

Sorry I do not think it should be part of md-roam. It is just an integration piece between markdown files and org-roam-db. It does not touch the syntax or any feature of markdown itself.

I personally rely on markdown-mode for markdown files.

[wakatara]

Fair enough. I was thinking of it more in terms of a seamless integration with the rest of org-mode and org-roam.

Tbh, if I could, I'd just use markdown and md-roam for everything and the use of org-mode TODOs in them would just make everything better. =] Org-mode's primary advantage from my perspective is its superlative task management driven by the way they handle TODOs (and org-agenda and friends... ).

I'm assuming if I wanted to write in support for this myself I would need to fork markdown mode then? But otherwise, roam-md would just work as advertised?

[nobiot]

But otherwise, roam-md would just work as advertised?

It should. Assuming you did something like this:

# TODO task 1
# TODO task 2

For markdown, TODO is just a string and the whole "TODO task 1" is, syntactically the headline. So I don't see why this influences markdown or md-roam.

I'm assuming if I wanted to write in support for this myself I would need to fork markdown mode then?

You would not even need to fork markdown-mode. But before considering coding, why not simply turn on Org-mode on a markdown file and have something like this:

* TODO task 1
- note 1
- note 2
* TODO task 2

# Markdown heading H1

The file is a valid Org file (with .md extension) -- the meaning of "#" is a comment in Org syntax but it should not present any issue. Maybe you need to configure Org-agenda to take .md files as valid .org files, but otherwise, you might not need to code anything (?)

When you want to use some markdown specific capability, you would switch on markdown-mode. The "*" and "-" parts would then become normal bullet points in markdown. Again that would be syntactically valid, too.

Just a thought.

[wakatara]

Hmmm... interesting, but then I don't get the headings folding on markdown files and link syntax. Lemme close this as I tried something different with roam-md but ran into troubles. Think it's a big, but not sure.