> making an editor

or you could come up with a notation that works in any editor. I have [1].

> That way you can easily try different ways without deleting any text.

Sorry I haven't yet read your story. Here is how I would explore alternatives with my notation. I do this when designing software/algorithms etc.

``` Elias performed at this level for about a year. He was up for a well-deserved promotion to staff engineer. I sent him a meeting invite to go through the updated leveling framework to make sure we didn't miss anything.

#{ #{ Elias declined the meeting. } #{ Elias went to the meeting but he went late.} ... }

```

[1] https://github.com/pratikdeoghare/brashtag