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Plain Text. With Lines
I like plain text. I also like doodling while I write.
It's a way to interpret a sequence of bytes that a lot of people had to gradually invent a long time ago, now baked so deep into our computers that we take it for granted. What if we pretend we can go back in time, and create a transparent, gracefully degrading plain-text format that is trivial to build viewers and editors for? Instead of the above syntax combining Markdown and JSON, I could use a Unicode private use area to define bytes that mean “line,” “circle” and so on.
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