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There are books on the topic. 'Digital vegan' by Andy Farnell is a good entry point. He cites lots of studies and other books.

Very good point.

The problem is that these issues are hard to understand and properly value for adults... let alone children at 7 and 9.

Addiction. Privacy. Freedom of expression. Popularity contests and identity. Economies of Scale. Value of attention.

Damn hard to understand. And we really didn't cover the tech part. We have zero chances to convince adults away from the tech bubble. They don't get it, and don't want to get it. That includes the mom of my children unfortunately. So giving them the arguments and telling them 'it's your choice' won't work. They are too young to understand this.

I'm in Berlin, Germany. Can corroborate that people here distrust bigTech to the point of not using it.

It's a big question for our generation. I posted this using a gemlog in gemini: protocol but it has an html proxy so that 'the world' can see it (I'm glad I did, I don't think we are to the point where posting a gemini: link works, even in HN, to get some attention.

Can you live, and market your business/services if you don't use social media? I'm betting you can, but I don't have data.

I have 1000s of twitter followers on company and personal accounts, but I rarely tweet anymore. Is it costing me business? Perhaps.

Well, cutting out "the entire future" is a bit dramatic. We may be building a better future by using smolWeb tech like gemini:

My browser with 20 tabs open is a game of 'kill the tab that is burning the CPU'. I have to have task manager open at all times. I'm effectively dual-tasking between work and managing browser tabs eating CPU. And I have a beefy laptop. This is with browser addons that block tons of trackers.

While in gemspace, I can open the same amount of tabs and never worry about CPU usage. And that's by design. I'm not saying that gemspace solves the same problems as the web. Of course not, we are talking about fully functioning apps here! But it lets me interact with content (what websites used to be) without worrying about tracking by bigTech nor CPU usage. It's a big win.

I was a big fan of zim, but I have to admit it's falling behind the times (search is poor, graph view not useful, no collaboration, no mobile, tags are second class etc) so I reluctantly moved away from zim to amplenote.

Don't forget asciidoc. Coherent, has markup for things like video etc. It's a superior format to markdown, a pity it's so unknown

Wonderful take on what's missing in current notetaking. Agree that text editors are not good for thinking (forcing the constraint of linearity "Great ideas don't flow out of us with a beginning, a middle and an end"

I use only native apps for thinking. Latency kills my train of thought. And web apps have plenty! Both typing latency (typometer, a java app, shows 45ms in best case scenario!) and creation/navigation latency (going back to a previous page, creating a new one). But I know my requirements are pretty unique, I'm not representative of the general public. Best of luck!

Amy plans for a Linux app?

Love this. Inter-post linking is a must, I use zim wiki to think and cannot live without wikifying everything :)

I'm on openbox (non tiling) and I'm extremely happy. I was on tiling wm before. You can do a lot with openbox. Now I open windows, not tabs, for browser pages. And search for window title to teleport. The spatial arrangement of 'tabs' adds a layer of mnemonics

Geany is really fast, and according to typometer (From Pavel Faltin), it processes keyboard input faster than any terminal I've tested (linux). So A terminal editor doesn't do anything for me...

I can vouch for dvgodoy's content and writing style to be really ideal for beginners. He's a deep thinker and has been working on this book for months. I can also vouch for asciidoc been a superior alternative for markdown

I really like zim (a desktop wiki) together with some filesync software

Link please :)

Very good point. I hope what happened with AI doesn't repeat with Quantum (that is missing the train even though it started with a considerable advantage).

We do! (and are hiring; although we are tiny!) https://datascienceretreat.com/

Did ghost.io not make a dent at all? it feels like aiming for the same market, with modern technology and faster pageloads.

Not easy to install compared to php, that's for sure. This may be a blocker.

This happens to me when I'm reading in a language I'm not very good at (German). Each sentence may make sense, but overall I feel I didn't get the point. I guess it's a cummulative error situation, where you reach a threshold after which the point is lost.

Typing latency as measured by typometer is quite high on kwin (no compositing). Both kate and Howl do much better. And pycharm. Great start, but it's not defeating vscode in the one aspect I care about: typing latency.

Kate is a surprisingly good/fast editor nowadays.

See also howl, written in lua/moonscript and damn fast. Both of these seem to have a bit more of a community than textadept (and no dependency on scite).

I used textadept for a while, bought the book to support the author. It didn't work out for me.

Mostly twitter, and my company's blog.

Mint is also a possibility. They don't use snaps but flatpaks.

Intellij and asciidoc, the plugin for it is excellent.

Using text files after trying multiple CRMs and quitting in anger. It's faster the low tech way. Also, lots of our comms are on linkedin which doesn't really integrate well with any CRM.

I used to love it, but I realized typing latency kills it (being electron). Also, export doesn't help as note links are internal references. So it's not future proof, it's a no for me. It has a great developer though. And the graph visualization is second to none.

I'm sold on the zettelkasten method. I've tried zim, cherrynotes, trilium...

I've found two things that matter most for me: 1/ you need an editor where typing latency is low. Below 10ms. Otherwise you will get in a bad mood and make more mistakes. Electron apps need not apply

2/ creating, linking, and finding notes must be fast

On top of that, it must be future proof.

I've found the ideal solution in howl (howl.io). This is a text editor, built in moonscript and with sane default. Typing latency is 6ms, faster than anything else I could find (on linux, non compositing window manager)

The trick for liking (in markdown) is autocompletion. It will autocomplete based on all buffers open. My trick is to run :exec ls (list of files in the project directory) and leave this buffer open. Then ctrl space will autocomplete filenames. The rest is trivial.

Oh God, Howl deserves so much praise. I hope it gets picked up on HN one day. It's only missing a tiny push, having a community around it would be amazing.

Is there any easy way to sync the DB across machines? TopicDB is built on postgres. I have no idea which file to back up there. My current notetaking tool uses sqlite to store notes, that I know how to backup as it's one single file.

Tried it on mint (LTS). uname -a (base) Linux q 5.3.0-28-generic #30~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 17 06:14:09 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I get: /opt/app.twinkle.notes/twinkle (base) dist:/opt/app.twinkle.notes var:/home/q/.config/twinkle dist=/opt/app.twinkle.notes var=/home/q/.config/twinkle * Twinkle Lisp 2020 *

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:16780/devtools/browser/6d2dd982-a67d-4915-8517-83d4394054a3 error: file '/opt/app.twinkle.notes/lisp/lib/sqlite3.l': position 13622: line 386: invalid number #1: /opt/app.twinkle.notes/lisp/init.l:42: (load "lib/sqlite3.l") [2020-02-05 23:23:09,394950 init#0] finished due to run time error

This is the deb file on your website.

Agreed. Sciter notes is a gem. It's fantastically fast. C-smile, congrats on writing this masterpiece. I wish you best of luck. If you found a biz model to support it and add features, it'd be great. So much low hunging fruit in a world of electron apps and a crowd (HN) that mostly hates them.

The problem with SUSE is that they always come last in phoronix linux distro benchmarks. They have no clear unique feature that would make anyone switch distro. This is from a consumer point of view, maybe enterprise finds value where I don't.