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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by COAGULOPATH on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:51PM (#29667425)
Text files are uniquely good at creating habits.

You can write them everywhere, read them everywhere, send them everywhere, effortlessly back them up and copy them. You absolutely own a text file on your computer. They're maximally cross-compatible (barring some quirks like UNIX/DOS linebreaks). Every computer and phone has a basic text processor.

Compare with a dedicated tool like Evernote - I now have to worry about the installing it, maintaining it, having my workflow broken by a new update, the developers selling my data to China, etc.

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Re:My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a sing... by m-p-3 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:57PM (#29667483)
I'm quite familiar with the CommonMark syntax that I use it without really thinking, so I write down my plaintext notes that way, and if I need to "beautify" it before sending it to someone then most of the legwork is already done.
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