plaintext works well because it is universal and interoperable with everything. markdown is a great compromise in terms of keeping the portable format while giv

plaintext works well because it is universal and interoperable with everything. markdown is a great compromise in terms of keeping the portable format while giving you a bit more power. the article talks about reaching outside of plaintext for certain content - another approach is to adopt a plaintext note taking tool that has better supported for more complicated note types. plug: i'm the creator of one of these tools (dendron.so) which I use to manage over 20k notes in plaintext