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What's a proprietary solution that makes it easy for ordinary people to utilize and store their copious multimedia?

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There is a universal, open format for text mixed with images. It's HTML. Support already exists everywhere.

And, just as importantly, it’s easy to write, with lots of support in a majority of text editing programs.

That's not easy for ordinary people to write.

Most word processors will export to HTML.

hello mso-styles everywhere

not ideal but does it really matter

Quality and size of exported HTML are word processor-dependent.

Some are better than others.

You would seriously recommend people move all their photos and videos into Word and then export HTML as a solution for ordinary users?

Well I guess you could also say that formats like Markdown, Mediawiki, Asciidoc, Vimwiki and Org support images in plain text too.

All of these are easily convertible to HTML or many other formats using something like Pandoc[1].

They're also pretty easy to write and to read.

1. https://pandoc.org/

That's a start, but we still need multimedia handling: conversion, editing, etc. And we need a way to easily edit stored content: I create it, export it, now I want to edit it ...

It's not like posting something on Facebook, or using a good text editor.

It's not realistic - it's too hard to use, even for me. Do you use local HTML archives for anything? What authoring software do you use?

Yes exactly, was looking to comment this. HTML and other formats (markdown) are driven by adoption and stick around for that reason.

and what do you archive when your page source is basically a script tag to a obfuscated js pack which talks to 20 other web services to dynamically retrieve the real data?

Facebook, Instagram, etc.

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