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It's extremely complicated to organize it, though
by gonzalohm 1mo ago
It's extremely complicated to organize it, though
- unclad5968 1mo agoWhat is complicated about organizing written notes?
- coffeefirst 1mo agoNot complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.
- 63stack 1mo agoNo search, no making space in an existing page, no moving text around, cumbersome to take it with you everywhere, unlike a phone.
- abroszka33 1mo agoYou don't really need most of this, or it can be solved simply by thinking and remembering.
- dartharva 1mo agoBy that logic you don't really need paper notes either.
- tentacleuno 1mo agoI suppose it's harder to cross-reference and find things, though I suspect you could utilize some sort of organizational system to mostly overcome that. I really do think pen and paper will slowly regain prominence; I personally find that it can be much more liberating than digital media. It's great to be able to use the page as a canvas, writing wherever you want, without having to meet the constraints of a text editor or the likes. Doodles help to visualize and understand problems, too. Tangent for macOS is my current go-to for note-taking, and it works quite well: it's mostly just a Markdown editor, a tree structure of folders (which is really just a normal folder), and the ability to cross-reference and embed images. I suppose the primary problem of note-taking apps is that they sort of have to be opinionated in some way to be useful (that's been my experience, anyway.) Markdown files are also guilty of this: they constrain you to a certain layout, which can either be a negative or a positive. Anything too complicated can be off-putting, whilst anything too simplistic can also be limiting. It's a surprisingly complex field, and it could explain why there's so many different apps for it.