> From my experience, the benefit of Markdown is that it eliminates the need for WYSIWYG, because WYSIWYG is awful to work with. I can't tell you you're wrong

> From my experience, the benefit of Markdown is that it eliminates the need for WYSIWYG, because WYSIWYG is awful to work with. I can't tell you you're wrong because it's your experience, but ... mine is the opposite. I don't like having to think about the markup, just show me what it looks like (no, not the "18px Arial #000 bold" kind, the "this is a headline" kind). There are a few rich text editors, but they're all not very markdown compatible. But markdown is the format you almost always need for sharing and storing.