Updates on 2022/1/26

Earlier today, I spent quite some time building a good implementation of rich text paste in Ligature3/Notation, my current place for notes and written thoughts. Before, I could only realistically paste in a couple of paragraphs at a time. Now, I can select a whole section of a document or an entire blog post, if I wish, and paste it into a new note in my app, and each paragraph will become its own little block, effortlessly, with sub-sections and lists split out into their own sub-lists properly.

With this, I'm finding myself more compelled to "dump" information into my notes with the mass copy-paste being a sort of a surrogate "import" feature. It's slightly changed my relationship to this particular app from it being a pristinely manicured garden to a mixture of handwritten and copied notes.

In an ideal world, discovering new thoughts and ideas from your own notes is as addictive/engaging as discovering new videos on YouTube or TikTok, discovering new people on Twitter.