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cma 70 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

versus markdown it is ungreppable with all the escape codes/entities, then you have to use special tooling for search.

oneeyedpigeon 70 days ago [–]

Avoid character entities—store your HTML files as UTF-8 and just embed everything.

cma 69 days ago | [–]

I guess that mostly works but lots of my notes have <>'s. I guess <code> covers most of that

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