>it needs to be easy to type on mobile This is a great point. I've written a lot of stuff just using HTML, even doing the table formatting, by just opening up

>it needs to be easy to type on mobile This is a great point. I've written a lot of stuff just using HTML, even doing the table formatting, by just opening up BBEdit and going to town. It's really easy once you learn the basics. There are (were?) a lot of secretaries who deeply loved WordPerfect because of the ability to open up the codes window so they could fix weird formatting errors. They're just a couple of steps from authoring directly in HTML if they so wanted. But it didn't occur to me that a non-trivial amount of stuff is composed on somebody's phone. A WYSIWYG editor on mobile is certainly doable, but screen real estate is precious on a phone. Markdown certainly helps with that.