I know your notes tech on your website isn't available for people to use, but I'm totally captivated by it. Have you ever shared screenshots of how the thing works from your point of view, e.g. composing, editing, organizing, etc?
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Hi, Brian! Thanks for the shoutout.
My authoring support software’s all prototype-y, so it doesn’t have any UI. It’s just a bunch of scripts and Alfred workflows that work with plain Markdown notes. I mostly use Bear to edit them.
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Are you trying out Roam Andy? And thought on it?
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No. I chat with Conor and experiment with it intermittently. This is a research project, so I need to be rolling my own tools to experiment properly. Also I can't use webapps for serious creative work.
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very curious why you can't use webapps for serious creative work 🤔 too slow? clunky? unreliable? privacy concerns?
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This is one of those professional sensitivities that’s difficult to transmit “as information.” It’s like asking a musician “why don’t you like this violin I found for $50 on Alibaba?” They can say things about timbre or whatever, but the real answer is roughly: “it isn’t right."
A more serious answer: apps exist in a larger context than themselves. Native apps participate in a coherent ecosystem of norms—layout, rhythm, function, affordance. Every Cocoa text area shares endless details. There's no unifying HIG for webapps; each must invent its own world.
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