Everything you write that matters belongs in plain text files, because they are the only format that stays portable, non-commercial and readable for a lifetime.

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• A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing. DSDerek Sivers2 Mar 2022
• Plain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet. DSDerek Sivers2 Mar 2022
• Programming today still relies on one-dimensional, sequential plain text, largely unchanged from decades ago. RARasmus Andersson1 Jan 2013
• Storing your own writing in a company's proprietary format is a mistake, because you will outlive the company. DSDerek Sivers2 Mar 2022
• HTML is the only document type that matters, because you can do so much creative stuff with it. NPNate Parrott4 Aug 2026

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