Some good points here. In defence of the original point, you could extend the "plain text everywhere" to "open formats, as text-based as possible" and keep the

Some good points here. In defence of the original point, you could extend the "plain text everywhere" to "open formats, as text-based as possible" and keep the spirit. I'm personally in the "markdown for most things, with inline images" camp (with regards my own notes). This one caught my eye tho: > Try plain text sheet music vs actual sheet music. Conceptually, "sheet music" *is* a plain text of music. I accept that technically it would need to be implemented very differently as we haven't got ASCII or UNICODE for sheet music (AFAIK). You could probably do it with an XML language, or at a stretch YAML, and it'd be close human-readable and still vaguely plain text.