As part of trying to be more productive whilst working from home I have been writing a daily work journal. This is to help with tracking what I have actually been doing with my time, as well as record all those times I go ‘I really should learn not to do this again’

Writing Pandoc markdown is way better than writing raw latex, but you still need to write raw latex when you use plugins. Unless you write a Pandoc plugin that generates the latex for you of course!