actually, i use LaTeX to write and it doesn't solve one of the issues identified in the linked article, namely the distraction of formatting. I spent way too mu

actually, i use LaTeX to write and it doesn't solve one of the issues identified in the linked article, namely the distraction of formatting. I spent way too much time trying to make LaTeX work just right: a bullet here, footnotes there, should that be a chapter or a section? Just writing plain text would help with that... I was thinking of switching to Markdown because of this, but looking at pandoc again is interesting, because of the footnote support. But it's basically "Pandoc's Markdown", essentially... Too bad we can't seem to standardize Markdown properly... maybe the IETF will save us there? (rimshot) Update: I was half-kidding here, but there is actually two markdown standardisation efforts underway. The IETF actually has something going on, but only for mimetypes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown-07 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-text-markdown... And then there's Commonmark: http://commonmark.org/ http://commonmark.org/ And of course: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/