Why are so many people interested in markdown for notes? I've never used it before but HN seems really interested in note taking and in using markdown for note formatting. What does it offer that OneNote or Word doesnt?
With Word, you might insert an image or try to add bullets to something and end up with your whole document looking completely different, whereas, with markdown, you know that if you put in a ">" for a quote, all that's going to change is that one spot.