> the resulting file can be too cluttered with metadata to be easily understandable in other plaintext editors. This is basically why I switched to Asciidoc. A

> the resulting file can be too cluttered with metadata to be easily understandable in other plaintext editors. This is basically why I switched to Asciidoc. And if you need to collaborate with others you can point to different editors that people can use, there is even AsciidocFX which is made specifically for new users.