I’m trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

  • bioemerl
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    48 months ago

    Not really, or that doesn’t feel right to my. Word and notepad basically still do the same thing except for that word lets you add style.

    Like a manual vs an automatic car, maybe?

    • @frezik@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      Word is a WYSIWYG editor. We don’t talk about it much these days because it’s just how things are done, but it took a long time for the industry to come up with a way to display text on screen with rich formatting and have it come out the same way in print. There was a lot of buzz around it in the late 80s and early 90s.

      Word solves a completely different problem than an IDE. Notepad is a raw, minimal tool that could be built on for either WYSIWYG or an IDE.