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This post is like a litmus test for people who reply to the title instead of the content.
by davesque 4y ago
This post is like a litmus test for people who reply to the title instead of the content.
- drewcoo 4y agoWhat content? There is literally more content, and more thoughtful content, here on HN in response to the article!
- Apocryphon 4y agoIt depends. We’ve seen this “thoughtful content” of HNers posting in detail about their personal notes-taking systems ad nauseum in uncountable threads already. No one asked for them to do it again here. The whole point is that an elaborate system for taking notes is unnecessary and likely detracts from the actual work getting done.
- smoldesu 4y agoI'd reckon everyone is seeing greener grass on the other side, it's hard to believe that Markdown is more time-consuming than plaintext. The entire point of a "notes system" is that it works well for you. If you only need to take weekly notes, you won't need organization at all. If you're studying a variety of academic topics, then yeah, you're going to want a notetaking schema of some kind, even if it's only hierarchical folders. I'll still agree that notetaking doesn't need to be complicated, but... I don't see Markdown or Zettelkasten as complicated at all. It's like telling someone "version control isn't rocket science" and encouraging them to uninstall git in favor of versioned tarballs.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThe OP doesn't actually recommend people do that. It just says that note-taking need not be overcomplicated. No one said Markdown is time-consuming.
- smoldesu 4y agoThen I guess I have to agree with the HN consensus, here. This is a pointless post with no call-to-action, it purely exists to jab the Pathos stick into the side of people who could care less.
- Apocryphon 4y agoI see it as existing within the context of cultural trends. For years productivity porn and life hacks were in vogue. But the market for it has gotten big and bloated, the content overwhelming and over-monetized, so there's a cultural backlash against it now. The post mostly serves as a cathartic cry. For something more substantiative, satire can be more effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U Though that video is from- 2018?!
- smoldesu 4y ago> For years productivity porn and life hacks were in vogue. But the market for it has gotten big and bloated, the content overwhelming and over-monetized, so there's a cultural backlash against it now. I agree. How is this a critique of any of that? They aren't calling out over-monetized SaaS products; they're calling out the entire market of notetaking apps. Their rhetoric doesn't support the idea that productivity porn is harmful, but rather that simplicity is paramount and everything else is superfluous. Which is simply wrong. Maybe it's easy for a solo-dev to piss on knowledge bases, but well-organized notetaking systems is what keeps the corporate world going round. Unless the author has a better, simpler alternative to the organization products people already use, this article simply reads as whining. Who is even the intended audience?
- davesque 4y agoYep, I know there's no content.
- xani_ 4y agoIf by that you mean that people that saw the content didn't participate coz there is just nothing there, sure
- mannykannot 4y agoThe one and only article linked to by this one is arguably worth posting here, and in fact, it was, about an hour ago (I'm guessing as a response to the vacuity of this one.) Unlike this one, and somewhat ironically, it seems to have been ignored so far. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32887140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32887140
- davesque 4y agoThat's exactly what I meant :).