The report that broke me

Every Friday, I write a project status report. It has a table, some bullet points, a diagram, and a cover page. Pretty standard.

The writing takes 15 minutes. The formatting takes 30.

I'd paste my notes into Google Docs, fight with the table borders, nudge the logo into place, realize the page break moved, fix the heading sizes, export to PDF, notice the footer is wrong, go back, fix it, export again. Every. Single. Week.

One Friday I caught myself manually adjusting cell padding for the third time and thought: this is absurd. I write the content in plain text anyway. Why can't I just... keep it in plain text and get a PDF that looks good?