I often find myself writing short plain text files, usually quick personal notes. Occasionally they grow larger than what I'd call a "short" plain text file, and at this point two extra requirements pop up:
1) they are going to need some structure.
2) odds are, that I'm going to want to show this document to someone else at some later point in time[1].
Markdown offers (to me) by far the easiest transition from "basic plain text note" to "slightly longer formatted document", because most times, all I have to do is continue writing the way I was doing already.
[1] corollary: as programmers know, when reading their own code, "someone else" also includes you in three months time.
I often find myself writing short plain text files, usually quick personal notes. Occasionally they grow larger than what I'd call a "short" plain text file, and at this point two extra requirements pop up:
1) they are going to need some structure.
2) odds are, that I'm going to want to show this document to someone else at some later point in time[1].
Markdown offers (to me) by far the easiest transition from "basic plain text note" to "slightly longer formatted document", because most times, all I have to do is continue writing the way I was doing already.
[1] corollary: as programmers know, when reading their own code, "someone else" also includes you in three months time.