I've noticed that music seems to help me focus while programming but makes long-form writing harder.
As usual, has already assembled a nice bibliography: gwern.net/Music-distract
Only one paper on writing (10m essays); finds a modest (-) effect: gwern.net/docs/music-dis
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Will this help you release your note taking app as open source *faster*? 😉
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Oh ok. I really liked your demo of your linked notes and figured you had a custom implementation for that.