I tried going that way. Authoring HTML by hand is miserable, it totally breaks up your flow of writing. Then to make matters worse, reading HTML raw text vs reading in an editor is a painful experience as well.

I feel like if you wanted to write notes in HTML, you would need to do it from within some WYSIWYG editor environment that felt like plain text most of the time but easily let you drop into metadata, links, tables, etc.

Fair enough. I don’t necessarily agree with you, but I’m not you…

I don't want to use HTML.

"I have a requirement for my grill. I need to cook steaks, but I don't want to use gas or electric because of valid reasons."

"Have you considered using charcoal?"

"I don't want to use charcoal, which is potentially one of the last viable options, for unspecified reasons."