The allure of the perfect notes and todo app. Having gone through phases of various modern todo and note apps over the years, I’ve finally let it go and decided to embrace just using text files. (Neovim for me, not that it matters which text editor one uses)

It’s not that there aren’t cool apps for this stuff, it’s more that I have a trail of data across various todo and notes apps from years of different tools.

One solution to the problem of making things “feel native” is to go all in on letting go of native. Target a different style, be it minimalism, Commodore 64, pixel art, etc… it can be fun that way, especially if it’s mostly just a tool for you.