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>Very few people, in my experience, apply any formatting to their personal emails whatsoever Outside of technical circles, this isn't really true IME. I mean,
by ubermonkey 9y ago
>Very few people, in my experience, apply any formatting to their personal emails whatsoever
Outside of technical circles, this isn't really true IME.
I mean, I fought the plaintext good fight for years, but now in the year of our lord 2017, I frequently send emails that include boldfaced headings, indented paragraphs, true bulleted lists, etc., because it improves readability vs. "ocean of plain text" for most people.
- Terr_ 9y agoFor me, the kind of content that warrants that kind of treatment is usually something that I want documented somewhere else anyway. So often its primary existence is as a word/PDF file, or in some remote system like corporate Wiki. The upshot is that anything fancy in the email body is a case of copy pasting and hoping something relatively legible comes out for the people who don't want to download the attachment or click the link.
- twobyfour 9y agoStructural markup is different from email designs with background colors, borders, hero images, and the like. It still essentially reads as text, even if it's not technically plain text.