<!--t Here is the post title t-->

I hate non-standard stuff like this, even though I myself do similar things all over the place. It's the kind of the thing that's OK if you do it to yourself, but immediately rings an alarm when it is distributed to the general public. When you're already doing something non-standard by using a flat file instead of a well-known DB format, you might as well use standards in other places so that people have fewer reasons to complain.

For example, Markdown has a special syntax for <h1> tags. It looks like this:

    This is a title.
    ================

Since it is extremely unlikely that an <h1> tag will be used for anything other than the title of a post, why not use it to mark a line as the title?

Or maybe use the MultiMarkdown convention of colon-separated header fields at the top of the file, like:

    Title: This is the title.
    Tags: foo, bar
    Date: March 3, 2014