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by esjeon 1650 days ago
This idea carries some decent vibes. Pretty cool, seriously.

But I think I can't use this service:

(1) It requires "editing" for web publication, and I know I'm too lazy to keep up with that.

(2) I find myself mostly scribble with pencil and paper, and write on computer. This is partially because my handwriting is in another dimension in terms of recognizability.

(3) I sweat a lot, and that ruins paper notebooks pretty quickly, normally within 2~3 months of daily use. (So I use legal pads.)

So, personally, I've always thought about the reverse: write pages with computer, and make a book out of it for archival, like, yearly.

Still, I'm yet to carry out this idea, because:

(1) I'm unsatisfied with currently available text-based document formats - either too limited (markdown), too biased (ReST), or too verbose(HTML/XML). I'm hoping to build something like Notion(block-driven) out of plain-text document format.

(2) I fiercely hate proprietary note-taking services and apps. I've already had enough headaches: pages lost, broken import/export features, backup restoration failures, etc. Never gonna spend a single penny on them.