An obsession with text

In a computing age of ever-increasing abstractions and bloated proprietary file formats, I seem to find myself drawn quite frequently to text-based file formats and command-line interfaces. Maybe its a sign of my age. Maybe I mistrust things unless I fully understand what is going on.

At any rate, I re-discovered the MoinMoin wiki engine as a means of keeping myself organized and documented at work. Its python-based(which I like) and keeps its pages in simple text in the filesystem(which I also like). I dabbled a little with re-structured text( part of Python's docutils ), and while it may have its usage as a final document, for example software manuals, I find the wiki concept to be more practical for quickly organizing projects in a free flowing manner.

I also have used todo.sh to manage a text-based todo list http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ , for quite a while now.