Note-takingfags are obnoxious

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+      <h2>Note-takingfags are obnoxious</h2>
+      <em id="date">Feb 26, 2024</em>
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+    <h3>What even is note-taking?</h3>
+    <p>
+      Last week, When I was browsing /g/, I stumbled on a thread about taking
+      notes. This wasn't the first time I had seen people discuss this issue
+      (mostly on other websites like YouTube). When I happened upon such things,
+      it always struck me as odd and obnoxious.
+    </p>
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+    <p>
+      My annoyance with them mainly comes from their names (and sometimes their
+      length). With titles like "<em>Obsidian As A Second Brain</em>", "<em
+        >Hack your brain with Obsidian</em
+      >" or "<em
+        >You're not stupid: How to learn difficult things with Obsidian</em
+      >", it's pretty easy to judge who the audience for these videos (and the
+      userbase of these apps) are: People who need to take notes to convince
+      themselves that they are working/learning instead of actually doing action
+      of working/learning.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+      Now, I can respect someone documenting <em>actually</em> doing something.
+      Here's one of my favorite
+      <a href="https://sgt.hootr.club/molten-matter/urweb/" target="_blank"
+        >blog posts</a
+      >
+      about a guy learning a functional (a paradigm I actively dislike)
+      programming language I've never even heard of. But none of these
+      note-taking freaks do anything other than procrastinating! Perfecting
+      their "note-taking" setup to be just perfect. This is not exclusive to the
+      note-taking people but, at the very least, when you spend time being a
+      tinkertranny on something else, like your console emulator, shell,
+      Vim/Emacs, DE/WM setup etc. you actually gain some productivity. You just
+      need to be productive enough to offset the time spent being a
+      tinkertranny.
+    </p>
+
+    <h3>
+      How <strong><em>I</em></strong> take notes
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      For me, notes are used for very simple things. I had been using Google
+      Keep to take/sync all my notes. It's on the of the few Google applications
+      that I deliberately installed on my old phone, even when I bought a new
+      one, I also did did the same. I was pretty happy with it, only problem
+      being Google itself. It didn't have many features (like version control),
+      but due to the fact it required no hassle to setup or sync, I was happy
+      with it.
+    </p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li class="postitem">Reminders (timed or otherwise)</li>
+      <li class="postitem">Groceries (with checkboxes)</li>
+      <li class="postitem">What I want to download when I have time</li>
+      <li class="postitem">Very minute things like</li>
+      <ul>
+        <li class="postitem">Writing down usernames/emails</li>
+        <li class="postitem">Writing something to show to someone</li>
+      </ul>
+    </ul>
+
+    <p>
+      However after, I lurked that note-taking thread on /g/ I mentioned
+      earlier, an emotion of needing to debloat myself overtook me. Especially
+      this post:
+    </p>
+
+    <pre>
+<code>$ echo "buy milk" >> notes.txt
+$ cat notes.txt
+</code></pre>
+
+    <p>
+      I needed a way to take plain text and markdown notes, without using
+      proprietary software with convoluted things I will never use and sync it
+      between my phone and my computer. The actual note-taking part was very
+      easy to decide: Neovim. I would be lying if I said, I didn't look for a
+      solution that contained both note-taking <em>and</em> syncing but in the
+      end, I decided to trust my gut instinct by going with Neovim. When it came
+      to syncing, ultimately I decided on Syncthing. It's OSS, it's very
+      lightweight, it's written in Go - a language I happen to like, it has
+      version control, it syncs automatically. It has everything I wanted. I
+      wanted a good mobile experience too, but we can't have everything we want
+      now, can we? In the end, I settled on Markor. It's a bit bloated for my
+      use case, but I couldn't find anything that looked pleasant and worked at
+      the same time.
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