Oh this takes me back. Early 2000s, a pre-holiday release of one of the Gears of War - I forget which, and then: Christmas Morning.

Thousands of people having just opened the game immediately jumping into multiplayer and getting absolutely massacred. What an amazing Christmas present.

Now I’m the fodder, on a good day.

It’s nice that you’re so ready to delegate to my natural authority, but unnecessary.

I’m sick of stuff that should be ~2 paragraphs of text being a video. I do not want to watch a person or hear a narrator, I interpret written information much more effectively, and being text I can retain significant portions of the document as necessary.

Those who have suffered and decided that others must suffer too because “they turned out OK” or to “toughen them up” were broken by their suffering and that’s just deeply sad.

Primary contributor is a single user with mod status, and extremely limited engagement via comments. Looks susceptible to bias based on metadata alone.

Really?

Always Remember: Democrats moving to Canada would certainly vote Conservative once eligible to do so.

It and I might just be at odds about some fundamental aspects of note taking. One of the major problems I have is shared with Protonmail: Folders as a second class feature.

I may be old and tired, but structure is information. Folders are a premium feature, which on its face is laughable - I’m not opposed to paying for software, I pay for the note taking software I use now, but c’mon. For me tags are not a suitable substitution, they are good metadata for sure; particularly for searching but it’s a very flat organization system. It could be so much richer.

Missing free-form note metadata. We’ve got created date and modified date which is good, and an archived flag which is OK. An example I have from my notes is: I take notes during a meeting, sometimes on paper when I’m not in a situation where I have a computer in front of me. When I digitize these notes I assign an attribute to them that is the date the meeting took place, since digitization may not happen until the next day or longer depending on how long it sits on my desk.

Missing templates. I have spent some time putting together rough outline structures for different kinds of notes; release notes, change logs, general meetings, and daily task notes.

Missing note links. I am a big fan of not repeating information in a bunch of places. Doubly so in notes. My first impressions of a thing may be wrong, incomplete, missing context… and if I can create a note about a thing, and then link back to the thing when I refer to it in other notes it adds a great deal of context and allows for extremely simple revisions.

None of this stuff is mandatory for note taking for sure, but so much value can be derived not just from the content of your notes but the metadata surrounding your notes. When you open the door to this, and you add something like “smart lists” which are more or less just saved search critera… it helps.

I wish they had gone with something a little more robust than standard notes.