I do the same thing. Markdown lets you do this already, you just have to have two spaces at the end of each line.
One thing that I feel like Markdown is sorely missing is the ability to link to anchors within the same document. It would be nice if each heading had its own anchor tag.
Yeah, anchors would be great. They aren't really any different from a hyperlink, they are hyperlinks fare and square, they just refer to the same document. If only there was a way to refer to `self` in Markdown…
One thing that I feel like Markdown is sorely missing is the ability to link to anchors within the same document. It would be nice if each heading had its own anchor tag.