Plain text as interface
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Summary
An essay on why text files keep outcompeting richer formats for personal work, and where that argument genuinely fails.
The argument
Text is the only format where the reader, the editor, the diff tool and the backup all agree on what the document is.
The honest limit
It fails for anything spatial. Pretending otherwise costs more than adopting a second format would.