[thorncorona]

Phrase it the other way, why would they want to support a markdown editor in google drive?

[adrianvoica]

I think lots of people would keep their (plain text markdown) notes in Drive instead of using yet another tool / app / service for that. Besides, having unencrypted text files at your disposal (for... I don't know... peeking into?) would be an absolute win.

[ThrowawayTestr]

There's already Google Keep for notes.

[adrianvoica]

I use that since day one, I love it as a product. But still, this is not about notes, it's about supporting a simple, text-based file format.

[layer8]

Unencrypted would rather be a loss for data privacy.

[adrianvoica]

Besides the pure textual representation of such files (.md, .txt), you still have the same problem for any (natively) supported Docs file format. It is, somehow, in the user's own option to use Drive as a repo for ultra-sensitive info or avoid it (but, unfortunately, this informed opinion applies more often to the more tech-savvy people).

[indymike]

Actually, Google drive does work with Markdown. I store markdown there all the time. (after all markdown is just text)