I tried eleven notes apps in two years. I kept the one with the fewest features. A short thread on why.
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Search that is instant beats tags that are clever.
Plain text survives every export. Nothing else does.
If syncing needs a settings page, it will break the week you travel.
The best feature is that I stopped thinking about it.
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Amara Osei · @amara
This is the one I keep sending to friends who are starting a newsletter.
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Jonas Wirth · @jwirth
Saved. Reading it again on Thursday when the issue lands.
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Lena Park · @lenapark
Short, specific, and I can use it tomorrow. More like this please.
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