Yep. Plain text. Offline first. I pretty much consider markdown a form of plain text, whether or not that point of view is orthodox. The only two other doc too

Yep. Plain text. Offline first. I pretty much consider markdown a form of plain text, whether or not that point of view is orthodox. The only two other doc tools I regularly use are a) completely human-readable plain-text hierarchical notebook with almost no markup in its stored format, b) an html notebook, whose file format is largely human-readable w/markup referencing images -- png and jpg. a) is gjots2. File format close enough to plain text to be indistinguishable. I sometimes write entries in gjots2 in markdown. I mean, why not? b) is Zim. Nuff said. I've played with recutils, and it's nicely done. But I don't want to think that hard, or be that organized. If I know I want to organize my text and massage it a bit more, I sometimes use an old text database program by Carlo Strozzi called nosql (no, not the nosql the web crowd thinks I'm referring to -- it predates that. It's relational, plain text, but not SQL, and it just uses standard nix utilities). If I need version control for plain text, the now ancient RCS program is something I seem to be able to re-familiarize myself with much quicker than I can with git. Now having said all that, if someone asks me to write/format a Christmas letter for them, well, out comes Libre Office Writer and it gets saved in docx. Why fight the universe?