Furnace Filters: Flat vs. Pleated - which is better?

After 9 years of dormancy of this thread, this zombie has come back to life, I do agree with this, however the only difference I can see is that people may forget to change the pleated ones, just because they don’t have to change it as fast, so out of sight, out of mind, and they are used too long between changes. The flat ones it is more in memory to change it regularly.