Why plain text wins: anything can operate on a plain file, even an AI agent
dSebastien · x · 2026-09-12
Developer dSebastien distills the case for plain text into one line: anything can operate on a plain file — templates, shell scripts, cron jobs, Git hooks, even AI agents — while nothing can operate on a proprietary blob. That, he argues, is exactly why Obsidian's automation ecosystem works and why he trusts his vault with 20 years of notes. With AI agents increasingly acting on personal knowledge bases, open formats make your notes scriptable and agent-accessible without depending on any vendor's tooling.
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