/tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
I follow an unwritten rule that I will always congratulate anyone on shipping anything. Shipping anything is hard and deserves praise, so congratulations!<p>Unfortunately I'm also realizing that I got to a point in life where I just roll my eyes when I see yet another note-taking, or to-do app, or any other spin on the same trivial problem that we solved 1000 years ago and now are just beating a dead horse, almost like a developer endlessly rewriting a piece of code to make it perfect instead of taking the old "it's good enough" approach and moving on to fix the other problems in the codebase.<p>The note-taking apps are good enough. Even pen and paper is good enough.<p>I know I shouldn't react like that, because it's not fair to the author - they had an idea for a better product and worked hard to ship it, and probably learnt a ton along the way; maybe they'll even make a good chunk of money, but is there no point at which we're allowed to say "You don't get much praise anymore because you're the millionth developer who figured out how to duct tape some methods written by others to create a weather app. We collectively ran out of praise for solutions in that specific problem domain. And we're sure as hell not paying for it"?<p>I feel like everyone's just trying to make a buck with their tiny spin on the same idea. Of course there's a subscription on the note-taking app. And let me guess, the next note-taking app is going to have more real-time interactions, and fancy animations, and it's going to sync with the notes your cat takes and you can print them out once a month on this slick looking notepad that gets mailed to you.<p>I hate that I ended up old and cynical. I used to have starry eyes.