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The 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.
by Apocryphon 4y ago
The 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?