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

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[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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