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> The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

Actually this is false. There are no hieroglyphs in the Pyramids. This is one of the reasons there is a theory they were built a long time before the classic Egyptians.

You taught me something! I don't think it majorly affects the point I was trying to make, but I hate to have an inaccuracy. Edited to say "ancient temples" instead of "pyramids", thank you for the correction.

Obsidian is a great example! I’ll also toss in OmniGroup’s [0] apps, which all use a XML based file format that’s pretty easy to parse. (Including on iOS!)

[0] https://www.omnigroup.com/

OmniFocus looks awesome. I’ve been looking for something just like this.

heh. yeah. Plain text always wins. (btw, in all meanings of "plain". like no-frills, and no-fluff too)

You know, everything textual-or-structural on this whole almost-abandoned site (non-english, sorry), like:

https://gramofonche.chitanka.info/prikazki/pipi--cd709-kanev...

https://gramofonche.chitanka.info/pesnicki/

is made out of these yamls, one per item-folder:

https://gramofonche.chitanka.info/prikazki/pipi--cd709-kanev...

(with help of about ~15000 lines of python+libs, but that's ephemeral)

have not touched it for 12 years..

This makes me think of the following static site generators that use a file-based structure to generate navigation:

https://astro.build/

https://docusaurus.io/

As the Docusaurus maintainer, I stand by behind these ideas. Markdown is a portable format, and I'd like to make Docusaurus/Obsidian work well together in the future.

The fact that I do not understand at all what these services are for by looking at their landing page is kinda funny.

that astro thing, despite saying whatever-it-is is built for speed, is laggy on my phone. kinda funny

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