File over app
AI summary of the linked articleEssay argument: File over app is a philosophy holding that if you want digital artifacts to last, you should create files you control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read, and use tools that give you that freedom. The piece argues that apps are ephemeral while files have a chance to last, and that the ideas a file carries matter more than the tool used to make it. It cites hieroglyphs carved in stone thousands of years ago and notes that much digital work is stored on servers or in proprietary formats. The author, who says they help make the app Obsidian, writes that their notes are plain text files designed to last, even though the app itself will eventually become obsolete. |
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1 comment  Reminds me of Dan Fowler‘s latest blog post too where he wrote that the most valuable identifier in the music industry for reaching audiences is still email. It seems like we‘re often deceived by new and shiny tools. I see many reject Hackmd because of its „unfriendly“ user experience. Their alternative is Notion. Well, eventually it‘ll turn out that Hackmd is the more user friendly application because the Markdown format will be interpretable into perpetuity. |
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