[geoelectric]

Definitely, if I were using rendered output primarily that'd make a ton of sense of course.

As you surmised, though, I use VS Code, vim, nvAlt, and iOS text editors as my primary tools (depending on setting) and actually create/read the journal in pure plaintext.

The markdown formatting is more so I can c/p rendered versions from a preview HTML page to Google Docs and other targets that understand rich text from clipboard but not markdown directly--I can create meeting minutes and whatnot from my notes very quickly that way.