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I mean one document that contains multiple kinds of media (text, stills, moving images, etc), which you can very easily author in many server-based applications such as wikis, social media apps, etc. Word and LibreOffice struggle with it.

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Take a look at obsidian, it just outputs plaintext markup. You can embed stuff in there also (I frequently paste images in, and also edit the same documents directly on gitlab or via vim etc)

Thanks, I will.

To be clear, my wishful thinking would include an editor for images and video that's like a great text editor.

That's exactly the issue. Obsidian is great but not open source. I think the closest free software equivalent is Joplin (or maybe Zettlr)

Doesn't Obsidian output open source (i.e., plain text Markdown documents)?

As far as I can see, there is no license attached to the output of Obsidian.

Open source is a license, not a standard.

Joplin is the best FOSS option I know of right now. It's a lifesaver. Sync it up to a bucket or something via webDAV and it's good to go.

Dendron is open source:

https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron

> one document that contains multiple kinds of media

Like HTML or PPTX.

Using HTML for that purpose, emedding large images and other multimedia files in it, while in theory could work, is another nightmarish stretch of the standard and depending on the size of your document could bring your system to a stall. PPTX is Microsoft open-ish format for presenting slides and I doubt using it for that purpose would be a good idea.

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