riffing a little on PewDiePie's wild minimalism arc (h/t Steve) as well as Mike's The mc tech stack
Some of my own thoughts, after consolidating 4-5 different personal note taking methods across Mac, iOS, and Win ("use the right tool for the job!" they said). It was too much. Time to Marie Kondo it.
I had been like the home chef with 8 different knives, and realized that professional cooks use 2 knives: "this one" or "that one".
(in case the repeated phrase below is too nerdy of an inside joke, here's some more nerdy context)
better, but worse (1)
Apple Notes is better at everything, and you get decent cross-platform access via Apple apps, but not portability. And it's nearly impossible to resist the temptation to extend/enhance the text note container with vendor lock-in features like family collaboration, pasting in Numbers spreadsheets and Pages presentations.
Meanwhile, Markdown notes survive traveling anywhere.
better, but worse (2)
Tags/categories are better in every way than h...
