Some very basic html with no css would be much easier to read than parsing markdown in my head. Machines should do machine work, not people. Edit: still love idea and execution, thanks for sharing!
This is kind of a funny comment, markdown was designed specifically to be readable as-is, which is why so much of it’s syntax looks like conventional email and other plain-text usages that predate it.
I never got the sense that markdown was even designed, per se - the original markdown.pl script, so far as I understand it, was not intended to implement a formal language at all; its attitude was pure descriptivism, simply rendering what the author thought of as "plain text" in a more typographically-pretty format.