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Perhaps as a spark to discussion, this was presented with the note [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/msimoni/status/889151505672142849), "when people say plain text, they really mean the Unix ecosystem. 'plain text' only seems 'natural' when you have kilotons of tooling for it."

The "binary logs" thing is one of the main complaints I hear against systemd. While you can easily install syslogd to regain plaintext logs, this post actually explains in depth why the binary log format is actually quite reasonable and well engineered. It changed my mind on this point.

Hi HN! I&#x27;m excited to share GoCard, a terminal-based spaced repetition system I built that uses plain Markdown files as its data source.<p>I&#x27;ve always been frustrated with existing spaced repetition tools that lock my knowledge into proprietary formats or require constant internet access. ...