[emmanueloga_]

In general I feel like formats like ascii and even markdown are not great for editing. Most useful data has some sort of structure that is mostly lost when using plaintext or even MD.

A simple example is markdown tables... sorting, inserting and removing columns, etc. is incredibly tedious and probably requires tools to draw, anyway.

In this line of thought, a tool like Graph::Easy sounds like a better way to come up with ascii boxes and arrows [1] (this particular tool can output other formats too).

As a plus, the underlying data can be reused for something other than docs (generating code, scaffolding directories and files, etc).

1: http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/manual/overview.html