Ditching plaintext (mostly)

For a long time I tried to optimise my workflow around plaintext. It seemed to make a lot of sense to me. Works on every system, does not require any special libraries to parse, stood the test of time. As it turns out the advantages of an plaintext only workflow do not outweigh the disadvantages to me, but adopting the workflow for some time was a very useful exercise to understand the properties I value the most and want to replicate with whatever solution I choose. The typical “I will go al...