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If plaintext is a suitable option - almost invariably it is the best option. In no particular order, a few of the great advantages of plaintext.
The ease of search and manipulation of plaintext files is without rival. Consequently, one has a myriad of great utilities (grep, awk, vim, to name a few) at one's disposal for those tasks.
Various formats and the associated software come and go. Plaintext is here to stay - it is ubiquitous across all systems and it doesn't require any special (and certainly not proprietary) software for access.
Plaintext gives full control over data and by eschewing dependency on any particular software the owner has full control over its security and encryption.
WYSIWYG done right. Open any editor (although even this is optional) and start typing.