Huh. What do you use it for on a daily basis?

I'm in college, and my profs send a lot of .docx files. In general I prefer not to start up libreoffice, so I just use a script and mailcap file to view it automatically with pandoc and zathura. I also use it to write for both assignments and personal stuff, though for anything long or with weird formatting I prefer Latex.

Pandoc works great as a high-level wrapper around latex, where you can write the content in highly-readable markdown, while adding embedded latex for more complex stuff. Being able to use BibTex instead of MSWord's god-awful reference system for footnotes was an eye-opener, as was the ability to keep your manuscripts in text-based .md and .tex formats instead of docx, so you can track your revisions with git.

I've been using pandoc for a while now, but did not know that it could handle docx (I should probably read through the manual again!).

Does it handle embedded pictures well?

It handles them pretty ok when converting to pdf, obviously not converting them to markdown.

Thank you! This has been useful to know, and I now have some amount of fiddling around with pandoc and docx files on my TODO list :)

If you do I highly recommend looking into using a reference doc. I struggled to make the markdown -> docx conversion until I set a few reference docs up to keep consistent style.

I'm not the OP, but for me it's converting statistical analyses done in Rmarkdown to PDF or HTML.