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they like it because

# title

this is the paragraph

is more natural to write than:

<html> <head>...<head/> <body> <h1> title </h1> <p>this is the paragraph</p> </body> </html>

when you're just jotting some thoughts down.

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So the answer to my original question is - yes :)

Eh, the em example is reductive and makes it seem like markdown doesn't have much advantage.

If you rewrite your comment with lists I think your question becomes self-explanatory.

But you don't need the head and body stuff. This renders perfectly fine in a web browser on my local machine:

    <h1>My Title</h1>
    <p>This is a paragraph.</p>

For sure, you need an end tag, and Markdown doesn't. But for simple note taking, are you really writing deeply nested HTML?

Totally agree

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