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Personally, I prefer a lightweight, portable, easier to edit, technically just plain text file vs whatever mess of useless fonts/font sizes/unrelated garbage is crammed into a .odf/.docx file.

Literally anyone with a computer that has a ASCII or Unicode compatible text editor can open a .md file and get useful info.

Even better, add a little bit of lightweight extra tooling, and now you've generated a nice looking html page, if you need to make something with fancier presentation.

The only thing I miss is the ability to embed images in the md file itself, but even that is not hard to work around.

Obviously I keep software on hand that can deal with docx/odf, but I'd really rather just keep it simple, due to the fact that I'm stupid.



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