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(For myself) because 99% of my time is spent in an IDE or a browser, and there's less mental overhead for me to open a new tab and start typing than for me to o
by scubbo 2y ago
(For myself) because 99% of my time is spent in an IDE or a browser, and there's less mental overhead for me to open a new tab and start typing than for me to open a new app and do so.
- qalmakka 2y agoThe IDE is literally a text editor. Why not hit file -> new file and write stuff in there?
- cess11 2y agoFor me it's the risk of littering in a project repo. So I use Zim wiki instead: https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/
- qalmakka 2y agoAFAIK all editors and IDEs I've ever used can open a random file in a new tab, even if it is outside of the repository.
- scubbo 2y agoBecause "random human-language notes" are conceptually different from source code for me.