From 86c8c6c12907e184be93697d408beda1df62ac8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kmcallister Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:26:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Remove nonsense about a mythical "plain text" format existing "since the dawn of computing"... UTF-8 is less than 20 years old and there are still many incompatible encodings in use --- The-Todo.txt-Format.textile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/The-Todo.txt-Format.textile b/The-Todo.txt-Format.textile index 1523b7f..e030fd0 100644 --- a/The-Todo.txt-Format.textile +++ b/The-Todo.txt-Format.textile @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ A complete primer on the whys and hows of @todo.txt@. h2. Why plain text? -Plain text is software and operating system agnostic. It's searchable, portable, lightweight and easily manipulated. It's unstructured. It works when someone else's web server is down or your Outlook .PST file is corrupt. Since it's been around since the dawn of computing, it's safe to say it's completely future-proof. There's no exporting and importing, no databases or tags or flags or stars or prioritizing or [Insert company name here]-induced rules on what you can and can't do with it. +Plain text is software and operating system agnostic. It's searchable, portable, lightweight and easily manipulated. It's unstructured. It works when someone else's web server is down or your Outlook .PST file is corrupt. There's no exporting and importing, no databases or tags or flags or stars or prioritizing or [Insert company name here]-induced rules on what you can and can't do with it. h2. The 3 axes of an effective todo list