alt Hacker NewsFor most of the short simple documents I create, I don't want to redo the formating for every document. Simply writing it in something simple like Markdown ( possibly a markdown wysiwig editor) and having my software automatically apply appropriate standard formats to it is ideal.
Right, most people don't want to do that, they want the burden of applying styles to the couple headings or whatever.
Unfortunately, most people don't use paragraph styles, but if you do, it's a couple clicks.