Moreover, it's just advocating a specific extreme to a broad set of real-world situations in "just do it" fashion.

There's usually a balance between planning and execution. Note taking is no different.

There's no simple always solution to "plan meticulously" vs "just do it". Every choice in life is a cost-benefit analysis.

Personally, I spent a little time to setup orgmode. Works for me.

As someone who has spent hours watching some "creative" person painfully "transition" from Notion to Obsidian, I can only echo this pithy response.

I tried to transition from years of loose txt files to obsidian.

When I opened the folder the app showed me 1-2 files from years ago.

Apparently it only supports .md files.

I literally laughed out loud and deleted the app from my computer.

You've got a damn knowledge map but handling txt files is beneath you?

That app is doomed to obscurity.

> That app is doomed to obscurity.

Quite arrogant to assume that an app not supporting /your/ specific note-taking workflow means it's "doomed to obscurity". It's a popular app with plenty of users, a healthy plugin community, and a team of six building it. I think that pretty obviously proves you wrong.

If you were actually interested in trying it out, you could've simply run a quick find command.

find . -name "*.txt" -exec rename -v 's/\.txt$/\.md/i' {} \;

So simple you can fix the problem in one line but me pointing that out as bad design is arrogance. Gotcha.

There's a plugin that adds support for txt files: https://github.com/deathau/txt-as-md-obsidian

Converting all files from .txt extension to .md extension would be enough to start. This I what I did.

The only annoying thing was that in my text files I often used indentation to group stuff and in markdown indented text is treated as code block.

It's also tautological. Of course, we should use the note-taking approach that works for us.

Who would agree with using a note-taking approach that does NOT work for you?

One of the ways to figure out which note-taking approach works is to try the note-taking approaches from other people... It could be 18 multi-step note taking approach or it could be dead-simple. Unless you try, you won't know which one works for you.

Why do you care what other people care about?

Their posts end up on HN and make the signal-to-noise ratio worse.