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+## Problem space
+
+Two major modes for authoring texts:
+WYSIWYG and plaintext.
+A fundamental benefit of plaintext approach
+is freedom of choice regarding authoring tools
+[@White2022, p. 3].
+
+Where @White2022 examines benefits for authors with accessibility needs,
+the interest here is benefits
+for authors with unconventional needs for expression;
+specifically the need to "collect ones own thoughts",
+separately from or prior to targeting another audience.
+
+## Problem
+
+How to extend Unix-style tools to support personal authoring
+for collecting multi-facetted thoughts -
+e.g. educatational exploration for making sense of a new academic field?
+
+## Idea
+
 Extend the Quarto document publishing system to handle semantic annotations.
 
 Quarto takes as input plaintext files written in Markdown,