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We use QOwnNotes as the desktop complement of Markor. All notes are shared in a directory structure with mark down files - including recipes. Files are synced between devices using SyncThing. In Android devices, these are accessed using Markor, and in desktops, using QOwnNotes. I get to use Emacs Markdown mode too, as I please. QOwnNotes creates a notes.sqlite file in the uppermost directory, which can be added to .s…
What's with the markdown craze? I get the usefulness in software development – plain text matters for diffs, and everyone's got their favorite editor. But when it comes to note-taking apps, wouldn't a WYSIWYG approach, where markdown is kept out of sight, be more user-friendly? Take Obsidian, for example. It has this clunky live preview feature where the line you're working on keeps morphing into markdown. Super awkw…
Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason.
What's with the markdown craze? I get the usefulness in software development – plain text matters for diffs, and everyone's got their favorite editor. But when it comes to note-taking apps, wouldn't a WYSIWYG approach, where markdown is kept out of sight, be more user-friendly? Take Obsidian, for example. It has this clunky live preview feature where the line you're working on keeps morphing into markdown. Super awkw…
What's with the markdown craze? I get the usefulness in software development – plain text matters for diffs, and everyone's got their favorite editor. But when it comes to note-taking apps, wouldn't a WYSIWYG approach, where markdown is kept out of sight, be more user-friendly? Take Obsidian, for example. It has this clunky live preview feature where the line you're working on keeps morphing into markdown. Super awkw…
What's with the markdown craze? I get the usefulness in software development – plain text matters for diffs, and everyone's got their favorite editor. But when it comes to note-taking apps, wouldn't a WYSIWYG approach, where markdown is kept out of sight, be more user-friendly? Take Obsidian, for example. It has this clunky live preview feature where the line you're working on keeps morphing into markdown. Super awkw…
I think it's because it's relatively simple to make an note taking app or system, and everyone has an opinion on how to take notes, so you end up with a proliferation of note apps, and a bunch of fake innovation. Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason.
I don't know any individual's reason for being biased for or against anything, but I think that, if the claim is that there is no good reason to be biased against Microsoft Office, then that's false. My personal gripe is that Office's approach is just fundamentally antithetical to the idea that I know what I want to do with my document better than Office itself does; it's always trying to guess and, for a recent infuriating example, getting a bulleted list to indent the way that I want it can be an epic battle.
It's intended as a team knowledge base for documentation, but I find it works well even as a single user for notetaking.
It's open-source, and self-hostable, and integrates with draw.io and mermaid graphs. And everything saves as markdown, so it has good portability.
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I think it's because it's relatively simple to make an note taking app or system, and everyone has an opinion on how to take notes, so you end up with a proliferation of note apps, and a bunch of fake innovation. Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason.
> Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason. I don't know any individual's reason for being biased for or against anything, but I think that, if the claim is that there is no good reason to be biased against Microsoft Office, then that's false. My personal gripe is that Office's approach is just fundamentally antithetical to the idea that I know what I want to do with…
My favorite feature is when you ever so slightly click to the edge of a cell in the middle of a 10,000,000 line csv file, it warps you to the bottom of the page and selects the last cell so you can't find you way back. Best design decision ever!
Another favorite feature was auto-detect formatting. If it could read it as anything other than plain text it would default to dates, times, whatever it found... only recently (2023) was this "AMAZING" feature given a switch to turn it off...
Thankfully I don't have to interact with word. Thar be dragons.