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Or, you know, you could just use Notepad as Notepad. Or a real text editor, or something like Simplenote.

Snark aside, this would be a more interesting post if the author gave some reason why this was a good idea. As far as I can tell, it's strictly worse than a text editor. I mean, it is an interesting hack, but the post doesn't frame it at all.

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My feelings exactly: C-r n gets me straight to taking a note in Emacs (via org-mode), complete with link to what I was in when I took the note, timestamp, time tracking and all the other org-mode/Emacs goodness (tags, tables, links, etc). Maybe if you live in your browser the OP makes sense, but for those of us who live in Emacs (mainly for code), it makes more sense to use a real editor.

Org-mode looks great, new to me. I made my own much more primitive thing, I've been slowly evolving over a decade and a half, so yes, this is a knock on the head. Old outline mode never took with me.

If you use it as a text editor you are right, but with the Ace implementation this is a powerful tool, as a web developer I use it a lot

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