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Notes about Markdown, plain text, and the small decisions behind a small app.
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Small Fleeting Ideas: capture quickly.
The gap between having a thought and writing it down is where ideas die. How to shorten it, why capture is not curation, and the weekly read-back nobody does.
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Your notes will outlive your notes app
Why plain text is the format worth betting on, what Markdown adds to it, and the handful of characters actually worth learning.
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Best Markdown Scratchpad
The case for Smolpad as a Markdown scratchpad for Mac and iOS, and what Bear, iA Writer and Tot are each for instead. Four small Markdown apps compared.
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