The author is also involved in a markup language called djot, which is like markdown, but well-defined. It's an awesome language that will probably languish under markdown's dominance.

Quarto looks quite interesting indeed, thanks for pointing it out!

For those interested it's an "Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc"

https://quarto.org/
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli

Like a data format inhabiting the centre of that conversion graph they have on their website, basically a superset of the available input types, that is then version controlled by git, and can be exported to any of the output formats, in a neat frontend that removes all that complexity from me. :D

Quarto user here, I use it for my blog.

There is also a vscode extension for WYSIWYM editing.

That's just LaTeX?

So something like eMacs with org mode and has pandoc under it to export to various outputs?

Sort of like LyX?

yeah, but then your car is one unwieldy bicycle

Uhhh typst looks hot, that one I need to give a spin, thanks!

Typst is fucking amazing. LaTeX is powerful but just takes too much effort to use for large part of the population to the point that I just can't recommend it to most people outside STEM. Typst is consistent, easier to use, faster, and collaborative. With no nonsensical error messages, broken builds, and technical debt - I can actually recommend it to most.

Speaking of LaTeX, I really recommend LyX. You don't need to know any LaTeX to use it, and the result is always satisfying

Well like uzay said, basically just an office GUI that allows me to import/export into a lot of formats and automates document versioning away.

No Pandoc isn’t an editor by any means. It’s an document conversion tool. Think converting a Markdown file into an docx or html or epub or pptx or pdf (via LaTeX or ConText). That’s what pandoc does.

If I'm understanding your question right, kind of. Pandoc is only for document conversion though, no spreadsheets, presentations, etc. But at that it can convert between a lot of formats. And git can be used to version and share those documents.