Charming little blog post on complexity and simplicity.

The friction of having to write, to structure thoughts in plain text, to remember the name of the person I need to reference on this page: that is the point. Frictionless note-taking produces notes, but it doesn’t - for me - produce memory.

There is some utility to having the computer figure out what you've referenced and built the interlinks for you, but it doesn't seem like the note tool people have much overlap with the NLP + semantics crowd...

There’s no “directory listing” in my editor. I hit ctrl-p and fzf helps me find the file by name. This is obviously not the future of coding

Funny, this is strikingly similar to the approach Unison takes (and even carries out a few decimal places): an append-only collection of syntax trees identified by hashes, all stored inside of a single directory 😉