I still use plain text for everything. (2016)

Re:I still use plain text for everything. (2016) by falcolas on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:19PM (#27680479)

So, silly thought: HTML.

Support for your metadata.

Still readable and writeable as plain text.

Lots of built-in support in the major text editors.

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Re:I still use plain text for everything. (2016) by blacktriangle on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:28PM (#27680615)

I tried going that way. Authoring HTML by hand is miserable, it totally breaks up your flow of writing. Then to make matters worse, reading HTML raw text vs reading in an editor is a painful experience as well.

I feel like if you wanted to write notes in HTML, you would need to do it from within some WYSIWYG editor environment that felt like plain text most of the time but easily let you drop into metadata, links, tables, etc.

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Re:I still use plain text for everything. (2016) by falcolas on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:32PM (#27680664)

Fair enough. I don’t necessarily agree with you, but I’m not you…

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Re:I still use plain text for everything. (2016) by genjipress on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:30PM (#27681319)

I don't want to use HTML.

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Re:I still use plain text for everything. (2016) by fridif on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:43PM (#27681472)

"I have a requirement for my grill. I need to cook steaks, but I don't want to use gas or electric because of valid reasons."

"Have you considered using charcoal?"

"I don't want to use charcoal, which is potentially one of the last viable options, for unspecified reasons."

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