A .txt file is a perfectly good publishing format. This post is one, dropped into the technology folder, and here is everything the pipeline did with it.
The filename set the date. The frontmatter above set the title and tags. The section name — technology — became a page, a route, and a home in the navigation. Everything else was inferred.
Markdown-lite formatting works here too.
Headings work
So do emphasis, bold, links, and inline code.
Line breaks in a .txt file are preserved as paragraph breaks, which is exactly what you want when writing plain text. Lists work as well:
- one
- two
- three
That’s the whole system. Folder in, page out.