: From Markdown to .odt and vice-versa: a possible distraction-free writing workflow? I'm writing a master thesis (Sociology) and I'm really penalized by distractions. I would happily shift to a

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To augment Undespairable's answer, these commands from the command line convert from markdown to HTML and then HTML to ODT.

pandoc .some-file.md -f markdown -t html -s -o .some-file.html

pandoc .some-file.html -f html -t odt -o .some-file.odt

See also: www.pandoc.org/getting-started.html

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Your first option is, really, Pandoc, which was already mentioned. Its usage is quite straightforward. I've done some converting along these lines myself, and it's brilliant. It's included in Debian repositories, so I'd think acquiring an installation wouldn't be a problem.

You indeed want to convert to HTML first:

pandoc OdtFile.odt -o HtmlFile.html

and then proceed to create markdown file the same way:

pandoc HtmlFile.html -o MarkDown.text

and yes, you could go back from markdown to odt the same way. You also could enforce your own style set by mentioning style template odt file, the README will tell you, how.

Another option is to forego markdown for some kind of TeX solution (to which format you also could convert your already written text with Pandoc), the advantages being the abilities to insert images, tables and math equations in text, though, I'm afraid, that will close the way back to odt.

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Have you looked into WriteMonkey? There doesn't seem to be a plug-in to do what you want, but it is a robust distraction free markdown environment.

If converting to html and then to MD works, this might be the ideal editing environment for you. WriteMonkey will export MD to MS Word, which could then be opened in LibreOffice when you're done.

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I've been playing around with odt2txt. It strips out all formatting, leaving just plain text, perfect for diffs, and an acceptable starting place for doing your markup, and if you combine it with @AnandaMahto 's suggestion to use Pandoc to convert it back, I have some ugly papers to try this on.

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