Been in a similar philosophy for a while now. I like the idea of staying native to the OS, using open formats as much as possible, and using interoperable toolings.

The idea is to approach content as data-first, with tools on top, and be at ease with plans to Walk-Out when needed.

Besides the article in discussion, here are a few inspirations for plain-text as the defaults.

- The writing of our very own Obsidian’s CEO, Steph Ango at https://stephango.com @kepano on HN.

- A Plain Text Personal Organizer, https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/

- A template to organise life in plain text, https://github.com/jukil/plain-text-life

- Achieve a text-only work-flow, http://donlelek.github.io/2015-03-09-text-only-workflow/

- Note Taking, Writing and Life Organization Using Plain Text Files, http://www.markwk.com/plain-text-life.html

- Plain Text Journaling System, https://georgecoghill.wordpress.com/plain-text/

- Plain Text Project, https://plaintextproject.online/

- PlainText Productivity, http://plaintext-productivity.net/

- The Plain Text Life: Note Taking, Writing and Life Organization Using Plain Text Files, http://www.markwk.com/plain-text-life.html

- Use plain text email, https://useplaintext.email/

- Writing Plain Text by Derek Sivers, https://sive.rs/plaintext