This is the most similar note taking app to my long term note taking app I built for myself. Very good!
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#72Open a text file. Enter text. Save with a proper name. Done.
No need for connectivity or any additional complexity
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m an avid org-mode user, all of my work happens there. Can you give me the elevator pitch for why I would pay for tap over my existing org-mode + captures + agenda?
Not really. But _some_ part of my motivation to build tap was the difficulty convincing anybody to use emacs. Here are a couple points anyway: - I love getting email summaries of different note categories. I email myself a list of all my programming related reading saturday morning, it's great. - Entering a quick note via sms is hard to beat, especially because /tap sends me text messages every day and so it's always…
I think there is probably some opportunity for an Emacs distribution that is specifically targeted at these potential users. However, not as a way to try to get them to join the Church of Emacs[1]. Emacs would be no more than an implementation detail for a great note taking app. I imagine something along the lines Nicolas Rougier's notebook-mode[2], but without the focus on literate programming. Just nice formatting, quality variable pitch fonts, and familiar keybinds. Maybe some kind of slick configuration of artist-mode too.
[1] Of which I am a proud member, btw.
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#74The flag made of hands is a thing out of my nightmares.
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#75Nice
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#76I follow an unwritten rule that I will always congratulate anyone on shipping anything. Shipping anything is hard and deserves praise, so congratulations! Unfortunately I'm also realizing that I got to a point in life where I just roll my eyes when I see yet another note-taking, or to-do app, or any other spin on the same trivial problem that we solved 1000 years ago and now are just beating a dead horse, almost like…
> The note-taking apps are good enough. Even pen and paper is good enough.
It works for me too! I have a working piece of paper that I jot down notes on, plus whatever I need to do. If the "to do" is "long-term" enough, I have a lined A4 piece of paper for this purpose. I add it to the list.
For note-taking, I write stuff down in my "lab book", or on my personal website. Easy.
It's like the time I cobbled together a couple of ESP32's to act as an alarm system. The problem is, the Wifi was a bit marginal, and Wifi is always subject to drops anyway. My dad's solution: use a whistle.
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#77I have completely ditched note taking systems in favor of a flat structure and strong search features. I just make a bunch of .md files and edit them in vscode.
This is what I do, and I use Obsidian as a layer over it as it is designed with this kind of structure in mind. You aren't locked into it in anyway. It even has a Vim mode.
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#78There are so many, "the best note taking/whatever thing ever" posts, I just don't read them anymore. It's a saturated market at least for me.
* edit * I see I'm not the only one
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#79Another subscription….
sigh
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#80I follow an unwritten rule that I will always congratulate anyone on shipping anything. Shipping anything is hard and deserves praise, so congratulations! Unfortunately I'm also realizing that I got to a point in life where I just roll my eyes when I see yet another note-taking, or to-do app, or any other spin on the same trivial problem that we solved 1000 years ago and now are just beating a dead horse, almost like…
> I feel like everyone's just trying to make a buck with their tiny spin on the same idea.
Lol, exactly. My first thought after seeing the landing page was "there has to be a Pricing link in the top right menu".
From a rational perspective, there's absolutely nothing wrong with people wanting to get financial reward for their work. But subconsciously there's something about it that really annoys me, I'm not sure what.