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We started with plain text. Then everything got more complicated, and everything came with its own incrutable DB. Now we've come full circle: todo.txt, calendar.txt, plain text markup documents[^1].
Some things don't need to be more complex than they are.
[^1]: Some people never left simple and straightforward, but it feels like the Eternal September happened, and fewer people stayed with simple, and now it's getting popular again.
Wait til they find the security enhancements of the analog pen and paper
Harder to encrypt though, so I question "more secure."
Harder to backup and synchronize also