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Hard to parse when read as text. Heavier. Cannot read it through SSH. Need something else than your terminal.

As someone who live in terminal emulators (yes, even home), markdown is more WYSIWYG than most other formats (I still think org-mode is better though)



> Cannot read it through SSH. Need something else than your terminal.

Well, for reading you can always use pandoc with stdout output and pipe it to a pager. There are also fancier options like https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer (disclaimer: I contributed a small PR a long time ago)




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