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> Data is better in a table rather than a text document though. I feel like I'm missing something here. What situations are you ending up in where it's a probl
by hnarn 5y ago
> Data is better in a table rather than a text document though.
I feel like I'm missing something here. What situations are you ending up in where it's a problem that "data" is mixed up together with text?
There's already multiple ways to express tables (or more correctly data structures) with text. You could write a Markdown table, as CSV, or a JSON object, or any of the other innumerable ways there are of structuring data "in text". I feel like any of these would be easier to use than mixing plaintext with some kind of table view.
- Aerroon 5y agoThe problem is formatting. If I put two tabs between each column in a text document but then on some row I need to write a sentence then my tabbed table in the text document is going to be harder to read. And no, those would absolutely not be easier to use when you're just writing down observations or keeping a log of something like blood pressure. Also, they're not really mixed together. I'm just thinking of a tab being a table in it, not mixing tables and text in one document.